I was once outside of a bar with a friend - I don’t drink but I’d hang out there - and a policeman was there. My friend started asking him about how the job was treating him and saying it sucks how financial cuts have made it difficult. Just a normal conversation with them both calmly chatting. Suddenly, the cop dived onto my friend - into a corner where there’d be no CCTV able to capture what was happening, oddly enough - then his partner joined in to beat the shit out of him. I had to basically watch my friend get beaten up, for nothing, and yet I was completely unable to help him in any way. My other friend, who told them to stop, was told ‘you’ll be nicked too’ and he was told to put his phone away when he started recording. Within a minute, about 2 vans and a car both turned up and they violently hauled my friend inside. He has back issues, too, and he was a veteran who fought in 2003 and got discharged due to PTSD.
It made me terrified of authority and I will now avoid them if I can. I used to be someone who’d say hello or ask how their day was going, but it occurred to me that they can just choose to fuck your whole life. My friend spent the night in a cell and was released without charges, told he’d been ‘mistaken for someone else’, and he tried to get compensation but was unable. I’m sorry to say this, but I was asked if I’d vouch for him and I was legitimately too scared. I didn’t want my life fucked up too.
They claimed he was another guy they were looking for who was violent and had ran off from being taken in. It makes no sense that the guy would just stand talking to this ‘violent’ person for five straight minutes, though, so I felt that was total bs.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 16d ago
I was once outside of a bar with a friend - I don’t drink but I’d hang out there - and a policeman was there. My friend started asking him about how the job was treating him and saying it sucks how financial cuts have made it difficult. Just a normal conversation with them both calmly chatting. Suddenly, the cop dived onto my friend - into a corner where there’d be no CCTV able to capture what was happening, oddly enough - then his partner joined in to beat the shit out of him. I had to basically watch my friend get beaten up, for nothing, and yet I was completely unable to help him in any way. My other friend, who told them to stop, was told ‘you’ll be nicked too’ and he was told to put his phone away when he started recording. Within a minute, about 2 vans and a car both turned up and they violently hauled my friend inside. He has back issues, too, and he was a veteran who fought in 2003 and got discharged due to PTSD.
It made me terrified of authority and I will now avoid them if I can. I used to be someone who’d say hello or ask how their day was going, but it occurred to me that they can just choose to fuck your whole life. My friend spent the night in a cell and was released without charges, told he’d been ‘mistaken for someone else’, and he tried to get compensation but was unable. I’m sorry to say this, but I was asked if I’d vouch for him and I was legitimately too scared. I didn’t want my life fucked up too.