Cop Induced Trauma
Jan. 18th, 2024 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ian_nothingI am so fucking angry right now. I'm angry at the situation I was just in with my 4 year old. I'm angry at the fucking cop that caused the situation. But I'm most angry with myself for not thinking smarter.
We had gotten out of the boy's ENT appointment and went to McDonald's for lunch. There was a Latino couple sitting across from us, minding their own business, eating their food. A tall black man was sitting two tables to our right, just spouting a stream of profanity at the couple, for no reason.
The guy even walked up to their table spouting off about "immigrants", even going so far as to physically threaten them, before finally sitting back down continuing to curse at them.
I turned to him in my seat and curtly asked if he minded, there's a child here. He turned to me and started spewing at me, walking up to the couple, pointing at them, cursing at them, going on about how "his money is being taken out of his paycheck and going to them".
At this point I had my phone out recording him. It turns out he's a cop. I had asked him what his badge number was before I started recording him so I asked him a second time. He called me a bitch and when I asked him his name he said my mother was a bitch for having a child like me. Still going on about the couple and his money.
So that's the situation I'm angry about.
That's the situation a cop put me in.
I'm angry at myself for not asking to see his credentials. If he's a Chicago cop, he's required to carry his gun at all times. That means he should have ID to prove who he says he is. I'm angry at myself for not trying to prevent him from leaving the establishment, calling attention to us to get the managers attention to have that person call 911. If he wasn't willing to show ID, I should have had him arrested for impersonating a cop, for physically threatening the couple, and anything else he could be charged with.
But if he is a cop, I want him relieved of his duties, I want him barred from ever owning a gun and if he has any they need to be handed over, I want to sue him on behalf of myself and my son, and I want him sued on behalf of the couple as well. This person doesn't belong being in possession of a gun. Nor does he belong on the police force. If it was possible, I'd sue him for his pension. But I definitely will never show a cop respect ever again. I don't care if they saved a litter of puppies from a burning building. Never show a cop respect. Especially a Chicago cop. Fuck them.
We had gotten out of the boy's ENT appointment and went to McDonald's for lunch. There was a Latino couple sitting across from us, minding their own business, eating their food. A tall black man was sitting two tables to our right, just spouting a stream of profanity at the couple, for no reason.
The guy even walked up to their table spouting off about "immigrants", even going so far as to physically threaten them, before finally sitting back down continuing to curse at them.
I turned to him in my seat and curtly asked if he minded, there's a child here. He turned to me and started spewing at me, walking up to the couple, pointing at them, cursing at them, going on about how "his money is being taken out of his paycheck and going to them".
At this point I had my phone out recording him. It turns out he's a cop. I had asked him what his badge number was before I started recording him so I asked him a second time. He called me a bitch and when I asked him his name he said my mother was a bitch for having a child like me. Still going on about the couple and his money.
So that's the situation I'm angry about.
That's the situation a cop put me in.
I'm angry at myself for not asking to see his credentials. If he's a Chicago cop, he's required to carry his gun at all times. That means he should have ID to prove who he says he is. I'm angry at myself for not trying to prevent him from leaving the establishment, calling attention to us to get the managers attention to have that person call 911. If he wasn't willing to show ID, I should have had him arrested for impersonating a cop, for physically threatening the couple, and anything else he could be charged with.
But if he is a cop, I want him relieved of his duties, I want him barred from ever owning a gun and if he has any they need to be handed over, I want to sue him on behalf of myself and my son, and I want him sued on behalf of the couple as well. This person doesn't belong being in possession of a gun. Nor does he belong on the police force. If it was possible, I'd sue him for his pension. But I definitely will never show a cop respect ever again. I don't care if they saved a litter of puppies from a burning building. Never show a cop respect. Especially a Chicago cop. Fuck them.
