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my_window_seatYou do not want to hear the sounds of a person being tasered.
Repeatedly.
It's an ungodly sound. The screaming. The begging. More screaming before it all happens again.
Zeke's being taken away again.
I called his parents again, and this time they actually came. After I told them he'd been tasered 5 times. After his mom heard him screaming over the phone.
Anyway, they took him away again, about 45 minutes ago. I've been outside talking to his mom ever since.
She said he loves animals. He's always wanted to work at the zoo. But with a criminal record, no one wants to hire him. I told her to try calling the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. See if she can't get Zeke involved with them, get him some kind of real, constructive help.
He's not a bad kid. But he's BIG and drugs, booze and mental illness? Nuclear fucking disaster.
Some cops are good people. Really, I know this.
Not all the good guys were here tonight.
One of them kept yelling at him as though that was going to do any good. Same one who kneeled on Zeke's fucking NECK for fuck's sake.
They tell you to go back into your house, let them do their job.
Even if there's nothing I can do to stop it, someone has to be there to at least see that it doesn't get as bad as it can get. Someone needs to be there. So that they know, what they do is being watched. Everything they do, someone is watching them. And they are going to be held accountable.
Zeke's certainly needs to be held accountable as well. Drinking, drugs and a broken brain - always going to be trouble. He had his music up too loud again - I'd asked him to turn it down earlier, and he did for a while, but up it went again - and someone else called the police. And when the police got there, according to them, he 'charged at' them. Which may be true. And big as he is, that wouldn't go over too well.
But a mentally ill person is not a criminal. Okay, some of them are - but being abusive to someone who's mentally ill, even after a neighbor has come up to them and TOLD them what they're dealing with -
A society is judged by how it treats it's weak and disadvantaged.
We live in a country that will taser a man, stand on his neck, rather than treat him as a person with a disability. We put mentally ill people in JAIL, instead of in hospitals where they might get the help that they need.
I'm sick of this. I am so fucking SICK OF THIS.
This is a SICK FUCKING COUNTRY.
Repeatedly.
It's an ungodly sound. The screaming. The begging. More screaming before it all happens again.
Zeke's being taken away again.
I called his parents again, and this time they actually came. After I told them he'd been tasered 5 times. After his mom heard him screaming over the phone.
Anyway, they took him away again, about 45 minutes ago. I've been outside talking to his mom ever since.
She said he loves animals. He's always wanted to work at the zoo. But with a criminal record, no one wants to hire him. I told her to try calling the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. See if she can't get Zeke involved with them, get him some kind of real, constructive help.
He's not a bad kid. But he's BIG and drugs, booze and mental illness? Nuclear fucking disaster.
Some cops are good people. Really, I know this.
Not all the good guys were here tonight.
One of them kept yelling at him as though that was going to do any good. Same one who kneeled on Zeke's fucking NECK for fuck's sake.
They tell you to go back into your house, let them do their job.
Even if there's nothing I can do to stop it, someone has to be there to at least see that it doesn't get as bad as it can get. Someone needs to be there. So that they know, what they do is being watched. Everything they do, someone is watching them. And they are going to be held accountable.
Zeke's certainly needs to be held accountable as well. Drinking, drugs and a broken brain - always going to be trouble. He had his music up too loud again - I'd asked him to turn it down earlier, and he did for a while, but up it went again - and someone else called the police. And when the police got there, according to them, he 'charged at' them. Which may be true. And big as he is, that wouldn't go over too well.
But a mentally ill person is not a criminal. Okay, some of them are - but being abusive to someone who's mentally ill, even after a neighbor has come up to them and TOLD them what they're dealing with -
A society is judged by how it treats it's weak and disadvantaged.
We live in a country that will taser a man, stand on his neck, rather than treat him as a person with a disability. We put mentally ill people in JAIL, instead of in hospitals where they might get the help that they need.
I'm sick of this. I am so fucking SICK OF THIS.
This is a SICK FUCKING COUNTRY.
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Date: 2007-05-27 10:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-27 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-27 06:54 pm (UTC)But the attitude of this one cop was exacerbating the situation, and I believe that's why the situation escalated to that point. If someone tells you, hey, there's a jar of gasoline in this paper bag - you might want to, you know, not toss a lit fucking match into it. This cop's attitude though was "just because you're mentally ill doesn't give you the right to break the law" - okay, granted - but maybe, just MAYBE, prodding the guy into totally losing it by yelling at him repeatedly, "SHUT THE FUCK UP! JUST FUCKING SHUT UP!" when the guy isn't even raising his goddamn voice - I was THERE for fuck's sake - isn't really part of standard police procedure. Or maybe it is? What do I know?
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Date: 2007-05-27 09:09 pm (UTC)Up to and including shutting the fuck up.
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Date: 2007-05-27 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-28 04:54 am (UTC)this entry
Date: 2007-05-28 06:41 am (UTC)Re: this entry
Date: 2007-05-30 06:27 am (UTC)Well, he's out of jail and back in his apartment again now. I'll just cross my fingers that he can stay clean and clear.