Comments on: Five Oh? Oh, I get it. http://www.racomics.com/2010/02/15/five-oh-oh-i-get-it/ a comic for impolite society Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Hhttp://www.racomics.com/2010/02/15/five-oh-oh-i-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Chris H Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:31:41 +0000 http://www.racomics.com/?p=1081#comment-63 Distrust the police. Always. You're talking about a group of people with weapons and carte blanche to do whatever they want. I was in a dinner one night with a friend and frankly we were a bit loud and a bit annoying, and a couple of officers were in the both behind us. When my friend got up to pay the bill I got up after him, grabbed him by the shoulder, then got walluped in the back of the head, falling to the floor. The blood began to pool as someone stomped on my chest. The patrons screamed 'leave him alone'. First one cop handcuffed my friend, then another handcuffed my and threw me in the back of a police wagon alone. I laid there bleeding, passed out, then awoke briefly upon arriving at the hospital, put in a stretcher and sent to another hospital that had a trauma unit. I spent 5 days there, handcuffed to the bed, with no memory of the event due to head trauma, bleeding of the brain, and concussion. No of the cops would say what really happened. I learned it from a friend after being released from the hospital and police custody charged with assault. I come to find what really happened, I'm charged with assaulting my friend and he assaulting me, banned from entering the dinner, unable to contact anyone that saw the event, and eventually gave up trying to get internal affairs to get off there ass and ask a single person a question about what happened. I was unemployed shortly after that and dealing with the joke that is public defense. I might have been able to do more to fight all that, but I wanted to move and had very little chance anyway. I gave up, took the anger management classes deal they proposed, and moved on with my life. Ideally the officer would be fired and charged with assault. Ideally internal affairs would have interviewed at least 1 person. Ideally the FBI would have done more than just write a report up. We don't live in an ideal world. Here is my advice. You see a cop, move to the other side of the street, Never let them on your property without a warrant. Never volunteer anything to them, or let them in your door. Demand a lawyer immediately if you are ever arrested for anything. TV Cop shows are the way things should work. My lil story is how they do work quite often. Your paranoia is justified. Distrust the police. Always. You’re talking about a group of people with weapons and carte blanche to do whatever they want. I was in a dinner one night with a friend and frankly we were a bit loud and a bit annoying, and a couple of officers were in the both behind us. When my friend got up to pay the bill I got up after him, grabbed him by the shoulder, then got walluped in the back of the head, falling to the floor. The blood began to pool as someone stomped on my chest. The patrons screamed ‘leave him alone’. First one cop handcuffed my friend, then another handcuffed my and threw me in the back of a police wagon alone. I laid there bleeding, passed out, then awoke briefly upon arriving at the hospital, put in a stretcher and sent to another hospital that had a trauma unit. I spent 5 days there, handcuffed to the bed, with no memory of the event due to head trauma, bleeding of the brain, and concussion. No of the cops would say what really happened. I learned it from a friend after being released from the hospital and police custody charged with assault. I come to find what really happened, I’m charged with assaulting my friend and he assaulting me, banned from entering the dinner, unable to contact anyone that saw the event, and eventually gave up trying to get internal affairs to get off there ass and ask a single person a question about what happened. I was unemployed shortly after that and dealing with the joke that is public defense. I might have been able to do more to fight all that, but I wanted to move and had very little chance anyway. I gave up, took the anger management classes deal they proposed, and moved on with my life. Ideally the officer would be fired and charged with assault. Ideally internal affairs would have interviewed at least 1 person. Ideally the FBI would have done more than just write a report up. We don’t live in an ideal world. Here is my advice. You see a cop, move to the other side of the street, Never let them on your property without a warrant. Never volunteer anything to them, or let them in your door. Demand a lawyer immediately if you are ever arrested for anything. TV Cop shows are the way things should work. My lil story is how they do work quite often. Your paranoia is justified.

]]> By: Toviashttp://www.racomics.com/2010/02/15/five-oh-oh-i-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Tovias Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:59:27 +0000 http://www.racomics.com/?p=1081#comment-43 Hey, thanks for stopping by! If you're in the 757 you might be interested in checking out our local Meetup Group for <a href="http://757ccc.org/757ccc/757_Comic_%26_Cartoon_Creators.html" rel="nofollow">Comic and Cartoon Creators</a>. Since it was in the Dam Neck area it may have actually been the same Officer Douché I met, as that's really close to our neighborhood. I had a lot more to say about the situation, but a site crash and redesign ended up killing the week for updates. I was ticked enough that I wrote a letter to the Pilot (ooh, I'm all kinds of out of control now!). Again, thanks for checking out the comic, drive safe. (heh). Hey, thanks for stopping by! If you’re in the 757 you might be interested in checking out our local Meetup Group for Comic and Cartoon Creators.

Since it was in the Dam Neck area it may have actually been the same Officer Douché I met, as that’s really close to our neighborhood.

I had a lot more to say about the situation, but a site crash and redesign ended up killing the week for updates. I was ticked enough that I wrote a letter to the Pilot (ooh, I’m all kinds of out of control now!).

Again, thanks for checking out the comic, drive safe. (heh).

]]> By: Charleshttp://www.racomics.com/2010/02/15/five-oh-oh-i-get-it/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Charles Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:45:36 +0000 http://www.racomics.com/?p=1081#comment-42 Hey whats up. I saw your site in the comicpress forums, and I originally came over here to say that it was great to see another artist/webcomic creator in the 757 area. Then, I read your post, and I got a little upset reading this. Something similar happened to me while I was in Virginia Beach. I clearly went through a yellow light around the Dam Neck area, and had 2 passengers with me in the car. They all attest that the light was yellow...just turning yellow...and I got pulled over for running a 'red light'. He said that he was sitting there waiting for someone to do that. I didn't know it was illegal to run yellow lights...but it should be illegal to call red lights yellow lights because you feel the need to make a traffic stop. So I totally get what you're saying, and the officer was in the wrong about the texting thing...and more in the wrong about your son jumping the fence. Somewhere along the line, they lost their sense of reality. Hey whats up. I saw your site in the comicpress forums, and I originally came over here to say that it was great to see another artist/webcomic creator in the 757 area. Then, I read your post, and I got a little upset reading this. Something similar happened to me while I was in Virginia Beach. I clearly went through a yellow light around the Dam Neck area, and had 2 passengers with me in the car. They all attest that the light was yellow…just turning yellow…and I got pulled over for running a ‘red light’. He said that he was sitting there waiting for someone to do that. I didn’t know it was illegal to run yellow lights…but it should be illegal to call red lights yellow lights because you feel the need to make a traffic stop. So I totally get what you’re saying, and the officer was in the wrong about the texting thing…and more in the wrong about your son jumping the fence. Somewhere along the line, they lost their sense of reality.

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