The purpose of this blog (well, it's also a letter I sent to some authorities, working or not, it doesn't matter) is not just to complaint, but to evoke the awareness of our public servants – herein are the cops. Of course it’s not all the cops, there are good cops who are very responsible and protect the community with justice and right. However, there are inevitably some cops don’t really care, just a job for them, at least some of them don’t really “pull” their hearts out for the community.
Here’s the story:
Date: 9/16/2009
Time: Around 10:01pm – 10:47pm
Venue: Dunkin Donuts at Kissena/LIE
Police Car Number: 1794
Three of us were in Dunkin Donuts to get some tea/coffee. While one of our friends was waiting on line, and two of us, including myself were looking for seats. Basically most seats are occupied; there was a table with a guy reading newspaper, and three other seats. So we walked to there, and asking if we can sit there. He moved his two bags of sodas to another seat. We told him that we have three people, and he got mad and asked us to get another chair from other table with a very unfriendly tone.
Well, its fine, then I decided to move his sodas back to his original seat (I was thinking it’s not a big deal, it’s just sodas). All the sudden he just grabbed my hand, pulling my fingers (left hand) very hard. He was shouting at me, “Don’t touch my stuff!”
I was a little shocked with his reaction, and I was really hurt by him and my conscious told me to shout as loud as possible to make sure he stopped pulling my fingers. I actually have no idea why he’s trying to harm me since I didn’t have any weapon with me at all!!! This shouldn’t an act of protection. The worst thing was not the argument part (it wasn’t an argument at all), there was no one coming over, they just watching and sitting there, including the manager in the store.
My friend called 911 immediately. We figured that we should not confront him directly and wait till the police come. We called at 10:09pm and waited for 22 minutes, and then I called again at 10:31pm. The police showed up at 10:43pm. They just sat in the car and NEVER step out of the car. The woman seemed very unfriendly at all. I wonder isn’t that cop should be trying any possible way to help, and she sounds like she didn’t care at all!
I told her the story, including I tried to moved his sodas. She just said that I was wrong, and I told her I admitted I should ask but it was sodas (she seemed like she didn’t understand), and there is not a big deal (it was not something valuable), if yes, he didn’t allow me to touched his stuff, he can always ask politely.
When I said I forget to ask for permission, the police woman actually said, he can also “forget” to hurt you!!! Isn’t that sounds ridiculous coming out from a public servant??? Sounds like the cops actually allow something like this happen!
She also asked me if I told the management. I said they all saw what happened. She actually suggested that, “If I were you I’ll never come back to this place again!” What kind of answer is this, very irresponsible!
When my friend try to talk to her, then she stop my friend with a kind of rude manner, without actually “listen” – she actually “hear” but not “listen”! And repeated, “if someone touch your stuff, you may do the same thing”, at least twice! Then I was thinking, police actually ENCOURAGE people to harm others!!!
She actually asked me what I want her to do, and I really don’t think she would take any action, so I asked back, “since you are the cop, then what will you do, and you can tell me what should I do?” Her answer was, “just leave”. Wow! Amazing! No warning at all? And she added, “Do you guys still fight, it’s over, right?” I was thinking, if we’re still fighting for 40 minutes before the cops came, this place was already like a mess. I don’t know why she asked this and maybe she just want to see something REALLY happen before she take action? Isn’t that police supposed to prevent things happen, instead of waiting till things happen before taking action? Isn’t that too late? And this particular guy may not hurt me that much, he may hurt other people with no reason in the future, can’t the police take a little initiative or responsible to talk to this guy at least?
We were very disappointed and we left after the police left. My two fingers are still hurting where after a night, it becomes green and black from appearance (of course this is nothing compared to others, but even though this is a small incident to the eyes of the cops, but they are the one who set examples for the community, to make sure things can be prevented. Is there a way that we can have our little voice out? Society changed! People don’t care, and the cops don’t care too. People wait till things happened and take action. Why not take some prevention before it really happen?
