Post by Cranky on Oct 26, 2023 10:48:50 GMT -5
Yesterday morning my cameras are picking up movement around the building. There is a guy walking around so i turn on the alarm horns. These horns can be heard a block away.
He's still walking around.
10 minutes later, he's still walking around.
Get in the car and head over there instead of calling the cops. About 10 minutes away.
I get there and this guy tells me that he's here to get the key to HIS property.
Yeah, okay, get off the property or I'm calling the cops. He starts to approach me...and he gets the only warning he would ever get...if his body touches my extended arm, it will be his ummm...
Backs away and tells me, call 911, fine by him, the cops will toss me off HIS property.
Hello 911...5 minutes later...he runs in front of the cop car, shows his birth certificate and claims that it's his inheritence and his birthday proves it because it matches my address numbers.
YES, you read that right.
Oh Good Lord, we have a special one here!
The cop asks me if i want to press charges, i decline and just want him GONE. Cop literally drags him into the street and tells him to keep walking, he will have none of it and wants the cops badge number and name so he can sue. Eventually he walks down the street yelling about police brutality.
What a lovely way to start the day!
Here is the crunch part, cop does this 10 to 15 times a day. In fact he's glad I'm not pressing charges because the jail is always full of them. He also tells me I'm "lucky" because he wasn't violent.
(Yeah...like I'm the golden spoon fed guy who is not "prepared" and wasn't brought up in the nastiest slums of Montreal.)
Lastly...
I keep hearing about "police brutality" but frankly, never ran into it not because I'm white, but because "yes sir, no sir" liberally used in conversation with any encounter i ever had with cops.
Honestly, i know we have mentally ill people running around but i didnt know it's THIS bad. Nor the level of violence that surrounds handling mentally ill people.
What also learn first hand yesterday was that mental illness is mostly unchecked, untreated and dangerous. With the cops being on the front lines of that every single day of the week.
Sad...
He's still walking around.
10 minutes later, he's still walking around.
Get in the car and head over there instead of calling the cops. About 10 minutes away.
I get there and this guy tells me that he's here to get the key to HIS property.
Yeah, okay, get off the property or I'm calling the cops. He starts to approach me...and he gets the only warning he would ever get...if his body touches my extended arm, it will be his ummm...
Backs away and tells me, call 911, fine by him, the cops will toss me off HIS property.
Hello 911...5 minutes later...he runs in front of the cop car, shows his birth certificate and claims that it's his inheritence and his birthday proves it because it matches my address numbers.
YES, you read that right.
Oh Good Lord, we have a special one here!
The cop asks me if i want to press charges, i decline and just want him GONE. Cop literally drags him into the street and tells him to keep walking, he will have none of it and wants the cops badge number and name so he can sue. Eventually he walks down the street yelling about police brutality.
What a lovely way to start the day!
Here is the crunch part, cop does this 10 to 15 times a day. In fact he's glad I'm not pressing charges because the jail is always full of them. He also tells me I'm "lucky" because he wasn't violent.
(Yeah...like I'm the golden spoon fed guy who is not "prepared" and wasn't brought up in the nastiest slums of Montreal.)
Lastly...
I keep hearing about "police brutality" but frankly, never ran into it not because I'm white, but because "yes sir, no sir" liberally used in conversation with any encounter i ever had with cops.
Honestly, i know we have mentally ill people running around but i didnt know it's THIS bad. Nor the level of violence that surrounds handling mentally ill people.
What also learn first hand yesterday was that mental illness is mostly unchecked, untreated and dangerous. With the cops being on the front lines of that every single day of the week.
Sad...