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BumRushDaShow

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16. Guaranteed that these dispatchers get crank calls
Mon Sep 3, 2018, 07:19 PM
Sep 2018

and calls from addicts and others daily and this woman sounded like someone tripped out....which is why the dispatcher asked if she was "living in the park" because many drug addicts DO "live in parks" and just about anyplace they can find a bench to lay on. And since so many treatment facilities have closed or are full, it is difficult to help everyone who needs it and they are summarily dumped out on the streets.

So it was possible (from the dispatcher's POV) that this woman may have previously been in a facility and was recently released. I.e., she was not acting "normal" because she was behaving as if she were under some threat of physical harm or death from people bbqing in a park after she confronted and harassed them insisting that they leave and they refused.

Much of the cross-talk on the call was because she apparently "stole" something from a woman (I'm guessing one of the people bbqing) who was yelling at her in the background (a "card"? couldn't tell exactly what the woman was saying). The dispatcher even asked her multiple times who was talking in the background and "who was she with".... And... crocodile tears.

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"So that coals don't burn more children and we have to pay more taxes" dalton99a Sep 2018 #1
Becky needs more than police help. pazzyanne Sep 2018 #2
typical of current heaven05 Sep 2018 #3
At one point the 911 operator asked her HuskyOffset Sep 2018 #4
Why the hell call the police over someone grilling where they should not in a park? cstanleytech Sep 2018 #5
That one got away with it. She was never outed lunamagica Sep 2018 #6
Is that you Sarah Suckabee Sanders? Racerdog1 Sep 2018 #7
I've watched the other one with the video LiberalLovinLug Sep 2018 #8
she is an idiot but that second dispatcher was over the line in my opinion. Kali Sep 2018 #9
I disagree, the second 911 dispatcher made the correct statement "I just don't understand why there iluvtennis Sep 2018 #10
asking if she had been in a mental hospital? Kali Sep 2018 #15
Sounds like a legitimate question to me hueymahl Sep 2018 #26
The 2nd dispatcher was fine BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #11
We had the exact same observations. nt Quixote1818 Sep 2018 #13
the first dispatcher told her the cops would call her when they got there and the second dispatcher Kali Sep 2018 #14
Guaranteed that these dispatchers get crank calls BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #16
that could be Kali Sep 2018 #19
From the video tape - Ms. Toad Sep 2018 #21
She only asked about the mental hospital after she asked her like 3 times what her ethnicity was Quixote1818 Sep 2018 #17
I agree that her behavior was bizarre and uncalled for. Ms. Toad Sep 2018 #20
Here are some facts BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #22
I was primarily discussing the behavior of the 2nd dispatcher during the call. Ms. Toad Sep 2018 #25
"I was primarily discussing the behavior of the 2nd dispatcher during the call." BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #27
Believing that white is the default race or the default American is white entitlement IronLionZion Sep 2018 #23
"Maybe when calling 911, these people should ask to speak to a white dispatcher." BumRushDaShow Sep 2018 #24
My guess is the 1st dispatcher did not report this. He probably thought it was a waste of time Quixote1818 Sep 2018 #12
This happened a few weeks later, beautiful: George II Sep 2018 #18
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