Tired of the "Defund the Police" label

[Precipice_dweller]

22. Personal experience

My experience was messed up, horrible, and unlikely to ever be replicated. But, I'm going to share a small portion of it because I am sick to death of people minimizing the danger presented by our uniformed police.

I was imprisoned last year under truly bizarre circumstances after having cut my own wrists and losing over half of my blood volume. I'd share more, but it is honestly a bizarre and lengthy tale and the majority of it is irrelevant in terms of the subject of this discussion. I was initially hospitalized for 3 days before being imprisoned. Medical records show my hemoglobin and hematocrit values fell to 45% of normal and I should be dead. Stage 4 hypovolemia, the point where you lose the capacity to think, you go into a coma, and you die starts at 40% blood loss. I lost 55%. You don't replace that amount of blood by staying in a hospital for 3 days.

While I was imprisoned, the police gave me reason to believe my life was over. There was a lot of taunting. Stuck in a solitary cell, I waited for a moment when I was unsupervised. When the moment came, I used my denture plate to rip open my wrist. My ex-wife's dog had gotten ahold of my denture plate a few years ago and he chewed on it for a bit. It didn't destroy the denture, but it left an edge. It wasn't blade sharp, but it was sharp enough to do some damage with enough determination.

I ripped open my wrist and spilled about a liter of blood on the cell floor. There was arterial spray, so I felt pretty confident I'd be passing in to the next world pretty soon. At that point, one of the guards wandered by and saw what was happening.

The individuals I knew to be corrupt officers cleared out the floor pretty quickly, leaving a small team to manage me. One of these brave warriors looked through the glass and asked me if I promised not to throw blood at them. Once I stated "i have no interest in harming any of you bastards, no I'm not throwing blood anywhere." they stormed the castle. Six cops charged in and high-fived each other after cuffing someone who was obviously such a dangerous threat.

They led me to a 4-point restraint chair. It wasn't a normal restraint chair, one of the cops said he hadn't seen it used in thirty years. It had a dimple in the back, one that pressed into the spine. Sitting in the chair, you could relax your body and suffer from this piece of metal digging in to your back. Or, you could move your torso away from the dimple and struggle to breathe. Breathe or pain. Pain or breathe. They put a peppered spit mask over my head and locked me in a room away from sight.

One of the medical staff told the officer in command "he could die there." The commanding officer replied "fuck him." They left me there for about 4 hours. I debated dying, but at one point whispered "water, please." When I asked for water, I think they realized they'd broken me. They took me back to a cell, locked me in solitary, and had a medical staff member pump me full of supplements to restore blood. Like iron and chromium supplements can counter that much blood loss. Idiots.

In this entire process, I had not acted to harm another human being. The act that got me thrown into this barbaric chair was harming myself.

Your suggestions are pretty. They assume we have a functioning system.

The system is NOT functioning. The people in charge are barbaric. The underlings are criminal. It's broken.

Burn these bastards where they stand and salt the earth.