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So I'm on the way to work and around 6:40am I'm driving right through downtown at Elm St & Lamar and there is a DART bus stop there.... I look over and see a police officer wrestling with a black man. He's obviously trying to arrest him but the dude was putting up a fight. I watched for a minute then the light turned green. I turned and pulled over, walked over there to see if he got it under control. A crowd began to gather, and I'm sure you can guess what the ethnicity of the crowd was. They were yelling at the police officer, calling him a racist pig, telling him to let the man go he didn't do anything, etc.
I stepped to the side and called 911 to let them know the officer was struggling, and a crowd was gathering. They said they were trying to get officers there but everyone was tied up....
So I walk back over, and at this point the crowd is 50 or so people, most recording what was going on with cell phones. The officer was loosing the fight. The guy was trying to reach around to the officers belt where his gun was, the crowd wouldn't back away, and the officer couldn't let go long enough to do anything different. I walked up to the side of the officer and told him I called and help is on the way. He asked if I wanted to help and I said yell me what to do. He asked me to help him get his hand that he was reaching with around to his back.... So I jump down there to help and that's when all hell broke loose....
The crowd immediately started yelling at me. Calling me every name in the book. White devil, nigger hater, piece of shit, racist fuck, you name it. A beer bottle was thrown at me, I was spit on, it was fucked up.
A few seconds of this and one of them ran up behind me and shoved me to the ground. The officer pepper sprayed that dude so he backed off. I got back into the situation and got the dudes hand behind his back and held it there while the officer watched the crowd with his pepper spray.
Other officers finally made it on scene and I got up and out of their way. People were telling me I'm a coward, and to watch my back because they were going to put a hole in it, etc.
The dude that got arrested was a drug dealer that sells at the bus stops. The officer told me that they were going to try and charge the guy that pushed me with felony assault of a law enforcing public servant since I was acting under the officers instruction at the time.
I left there feeling good.... I felt like I had done the right thing. But that was quickly overshadowed by how pathetic our society is becoming. People targeting me because I helped an officer that was in trouble. Regardless of if the dude was guilty or not, he was still fighting the officer and the officer was at a standstill... And the only thing anyone else was concerned with was recording the incident waiting for the officer to mess up, with the help of everyone else around provoking the situation.
I am not racist. But seeing what I experienced this morning makes it hard not to be. I'm actually depressed about what I experienced this morning. Not because I took anything personally.... But because this problem is growing and nobody can do anything about it. I'm raising children to live in this society.
I stepped to the side and called 911 to let them know the officer was struggling, and a crowd was gathering. They said they were trying to get officers there but everyone was tied up....
So I walk back over, and at this point the crowd is 50 or so people, most recording what was going on with cell phones. The officer was loosing the fight. The guy was trying to reach around to the officers belt where his gun was, the crowd wouldn't back away, and the officer couldn't let go long enough to do anything different. I walked up to the side of the officer and told him I called and help is on the way. He asked if I wanted to help and I said yell me what to do. He asked me to help him get his hand that he was reaching with around to his back.... So I jump down there to help and that's when all hell broke loose....
The crowd immediately started yelling at me. Calling me every name in the book. White devil, nigger hater, piece of shit, racist fuck, you name it. A beer bottle was thrown at me, I was spit on, it was fucked up.
A few seconds of this and one of them ran up behind me and shoved me to the ground. The officer pepper sprayed that dude so he backed off. I got back into the situation and got the dudes hand behind his back and held it there while the officer watched the crowd with his pepper spray.
Other officers finally made it on scene and I got up and out of their way. People were telling me I'm a coward, and to watch my back because they were going to put a hole in it, etc.
The dude that got arrested was a drug dealer that sells at the bus stops. The officer told me that they were going to try and charge the guy that pushed me with felony assault of a law enforcing public servant since I was acting under the officers instruction at the time.
I left there feeling good.... I felt like I had done the right thing. But that was quickly overshadowed by how pathetic our society is becoming. People targeting me because I helped an officer that was in trouble. Regardless of if the dude was guilty or not, he was still fighting the officer and the officer was at a standstill... And the only thing anyone else was concerned with was recording the incident waiting for the officer to mess up, with the help of everyone else around provoking the situation.
I am not racist. But seeing what I experienced this morning makes it hard not to be. I'm actually depressed about what I experienced this morning. Not because I took anything personally.... But because this problem is growing and nobody can do anything about it. I'm raising children to live in this society.
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