Not sure how I missed this little gem.
I couldn't help but laugh at first. Funny thing is that, technically, I did not get to eat but a literal couple bites of my dinner I paid for... For me it's not a big deal. Not the first meal I've missed a paid for meal due to something coming up or another priority... Nope, the problem was not that I didn't get to eat my meal. It was a LOT bigger than that.
The real problem is that in the above quoted post you presume to know what we went through. You then intentionally marginalize what we went through.
What a down right crappy thing to do
No Dave, it was definitely not just a few bites of food.
In reality we were abused by out of control public servants.
We were removed from our friends and families for nothing
We were talked down to.
We were insulted.
We were publicly detained and searched.
We were made a negative and public spectacle of due to the ignorance of some public servants.
We were forced to then decide to sit back and ignore the abuse and thereby be partially responsible for any further abuses by this police department or go through the toils of trying to hold these "officers" accountable for their actions. Public abuse, time, and money to name a few.
I was physically ill for the first three days due to lack of sleep.
And you dare marginalize the abuse of citizens by trusted citizen peace officers. I'm very disturbed by that.
Let me tell you something else, Dave. My six year old son has been in fear of the police ever since. Despite several conversations explaining the problem and that the police are not the bad guys. He has had several melt downs upon seeing police while out and about since 5/9... Just Monday night, I took him to get ice cream, for a promised reward. As we sat at the picnic table outside the ice cream stand, two TWP police cars rounded the corner. The TWP building is across the street from the ice cream stand. My boy pointed and yelled "police".
I said that's OK, they're just going to their office. There he sat, unable to hold in the tears, despite my assurance that the police were not coming to arrest daddy. Unable to finish his ice cream. What should have been a happy reward turned into a very shitty outing.
So you go ahead and marginalize the abuses of your fellow officers. I really don't think I expect any different from you, seriously, I don't.
I'm damn well going to "proceed with the case", because I know it makes me better than them. Regardless what that makes me to be in your biased eyes.