Stella Grapes Wrote:I would say "in lighter news" if I had lighter news to give. My asthma combined with bad heat and female problems caused me to become disoriented while doing errands outside yesterday, so I went into a shop to rest. The employees called the police, and let me tell you, New York police are rarely if ever your friends. They don't do their jobs when they need to and are overzealous when not necessary. Apparently being sick warrants the police forcing you to come with them. And having kids with you - not all the kids were with me at the time, half were - means you brought the kids in to steal candy bars. Because they were looking at the candy bars, and you said they could have some, but you didn't buy any because you were too winded. That means you were stealing despite not taking any. Because not all the kids are white, and apparently it was racism time in addition to discrimination-against-sick-and-disabled time.
"I just want to take us home. I can get better at home. We are two miles from home. Can't you take me there if you don't want me going by myself?"
No, no, we're going to take you several more miles from your home into a hospital where you get to sit for hours in a waiting room ignored with people who wouldn't care if you fainted on the floor from dehydration and asthma! Let's not let you go home even though your husband is there, waiting and wanting to take care of you! We are police officers and we are [strike]bored sadists looking for prey[/strike] doing this because... we say so!
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The officers eventually got bored in the waiting room and left, at which point I checked myself out without ever being checked on by a medical person and went home. Now I have scars from where the police needlessly poked me with needles and restrained me! That is not how you handle exhausted people, and I was very clearly exhausted instead of drunk or something. Gah.
Was this in a city then?
Gosh, I heard of police corruption, but this is bad. Police are supposed to be friendly and uphold the law, but I guess that is not the case everywhere you go. You never know if a police officer is corrupt unless you actually run into them. In fact, I just saw a news story yesterday about how the federal government is trying to stop police corruption in Louisiana, but I digress.
But the real fault is that store's employees overreacting and becoming paranoid that your kids would steal candy when they would never do so. If the store employees weren't paranoid idiots, then this likely would have never happened.
EDIT: What was below this was rambling from me that I have now removed, which I think that if I did leave it there, I would be afraid that you would feel that I was attacking your posting. What you went through was horrible, the store employees were idiots in calling the cops on you unwarranted, and the cops that they did send to you were rude and unhelpful. I was talking about how you said that "New York police are rarely if ever your friends" and the fact that you claimed the people in the hospital waiting room wouldn't help you if you ended up fainting, and thankfully, you didn't. I disagree with those, and I was explaining my position, but I decided just to remove it to prevent any unecessary drama.
Normally if a medical emergency happens to a person sitting in a waiting room, there is bound to be someone who would rush to their aid and they wouldn't leave them unattended. Unless if said waiting room was completely empty without anyone looking over it besides said rude cops...
And unfortunately, people having medical emergencies in waiting rooms whilst being completely ignored has sadly happened before.
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