reply to post by verylowfrequency
No, but there's a time in place to defend your values and your timing did nothing, but put you at risk. Sometimes it's better to live & fight
another day - I suppose that you have, but it could have turned out worse.
No better time to defend your rights then when they are being violated, at whatever cost. I lost the fight, I knew I would lose the fight. But I
refused to cower. And yes, it certainly could have turned out far worse.
EDIT to add: When I say "fight" I am not speaking of actual physical confrontation.
Was it your body that was more bruised or your ego I wonder?
As I have said, I have been in worse shape. I had my arm broken on the job not too long before. Thankfully it was healed by the time of this
incident.
And this is not about ego. This is about having some backbone and standing up for what's right, not just for myself, but for all freedom loving
people. For the values once held in high regard, but now are being extinguished by complaceny and worse. I don't know about anyone else, but I will
not go quietly into the night to live under the fascist jackboot of abusive authority.
I have to ask if they shouldn't have made that presumption why did they have contact with you?
You're confusing two issues. I have no problem with the fact that they initiated contact with me. There was no grounds to make a resonable assumption
that I or anyone else would be in fear of any sort of retaliation however, given the circumstances of the "window party." Especially such that would
warrant the involvement of a weapon.
Were they coming to your porch/home because someone sent them there?
Yes, though I did not know that at the time.
Did you have prior contact with them or other LEO's regarding this neighbor? Were they just walking around the area and decided you were there so
they'd make contact? Or were they just walking by and you baited them to come to you?
I did not have any contact with them that involved law-enforcement, but several neighbors have standing orders of protection against the neighbor, due
to pending criminal chrages regarding child-molestation.
I also made a complaint to the landlord regarding their squalorous living condidtions that had extended beyond their residence. Specifically, their
place was such a health hazard that their cats were now using surrounding lawns and driveways as litter boxes.
Sounds like you may have been a bit belligerent at the time especially having been intoxicated and that coupled with the weapon gave them enough
pretext to begin an arrest and the result of their actions weighed against policies, procedures & your civil rights potentially violated at some point
is the only thing up for debate.
I must reiterate that, despite the fact that I had been drinking, I was in no way belligerent. If they had properly inititated an arrest, I would have
had no complaint, and would have made my defense in court. This would have been a simple matter. And again I make the reminder, that I voluntarily
disarmed myself, and was no longer in posession of the weapon during our converstaion. I had no weapon in my possesion when I was beaten.
Well yes, at some point during that contact you have witnesses to back up your side of the story, but I suspect they weren't there from beginning to
end or were they?
They were there, and watching from the point that the window was broken, from various vantage points.
EDIT to add: Some of those neighbors were also very concerned about the fact that I was denied medical treatment, and voiced their concern to officers
who responded from different departments.
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