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(53,235 posts)Off to Ignore for you!
Tikki
(14,537 posts)I called the police, who came and when they started talking to the victim he shied away a bit.
The first thing the police officer said to me, even before he asked anything else, was to tell me this young minor
was 'known to them and they had dealt with him'.
He wasn't the least bit concerned that this minor had been beaten and he called me 'uncooperative' when I asked
that he take my witness statement . He wanted me to be all, 'will it must be OK for a minor to get beaten in this
town' because he had a minor infraction.
The other officer on the scene had to take the officer aside and calm him down.
I was truly scared by his attitude and his physical stance in my proximity. He was literally in my face.
Tikki
ps I found out later that police are not suppose to release a minor's infractions to just the general public.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)My pretty horrid experience dates abck to summer of 2006. I was doing 57 in a 55 MPH zone, and got pulled over.
I asked the police officer if I couldn't be given a warning, rather than a ticket. (This seemed like a sensible request, as the other cars on the highway zoomed by my car and the police officer, and they were all doing anywhere from 65 to 80 MPH.)
Policeman went out into left field. He started saying I had no respect for authority, that my manner indicated I needed to learn a lesson, and that he was thinking of shooting me. (I happen to be a white woman, and I was 55 years old at the time.)
Anyway after going off on this major rant, he eventually calmed down. I did get a warning rather than a ticket.
Three summers ago, I open up the local newspaper to see this officer's photo on the front page - he had been charged for child molestation of a youngster who was only 12 to 14 years old at the time of the molestation. (The molestation had gone on for during a period of years.)
I come to discover that the local police have little in the way of background checks. I also know that my one neighbor, who never fed the dog who was in a back yard all summer long, and left the poor animal often without water, she went on from being a local prison guard to becoming a canine officer! (I had made repeated calls to the authorities about the condition of the dog, so she had a record with the local pound for her mistreatment of this poor pedigreed boxer.)
cali
(114,904 posts)ncjustice80
(948 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)what's more, there is so much we don't know about this outbreak of ebola, that this "it's no big deal" crap, rings hollow- at least according to experts like Peter Pion who discovered ebola.
ncjustice80
(948 posts)How many hundreds are murdered by the police?
Initech
(99,909 posts)Private for profit prisons got to keep those numbers up!
LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)do we have to recount each gun death story individually here to count to the thousands so as not to be locked talking about the generality?
LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)ebola wouldn't care of my skin color, but looks like a lot of cops do care about skin color and who they decide to eblolize instantly.