Seeing Someone Get Tasered By The Police Is Quite An Experience
At some point in your life, you may see things in your life that make you go ‘’Did that just happened’’? I’m not even sure what brought this memory up in my head recently? It was something you would expect to see on the show COPS (Is that show still running?). But, to see something reminiscent of a scenario like that in real life is unexplainable.
Most of that day was the usual, I was cleaning restrooms and changing various trash bags at this Amazon Warehouse 17 minutes away from home. Then my shift ended, Those were the fun days when I took three buses to get to work and back. I had just got off the second bus and needed to catch the 618 bus to get home.
It was cloudy that day, I remember using this video app called Glide to let a close friend know about how my day was. 1 minute into the video, I start to hear some shouting not too far from me. I’m still recording my glide vid, but I catch myself looking to see what’s going on.
I see a guy running from two cops, he’s running towards the Ingram Transit Center. You have bus riders enjoying what’s going on and cheering for more action to occur. I’m shocked by what's going on. The guy who’s trying to get away from the two cops stops running and poses in front of the officers. One of the cops fired a taser at the runaway, nothing happened to the boastful suspect.
The officer fired the taser again, this time it got its target. The guy couldn’t move and ended up falling to the ground. One passenger laughs after seeing the guy get caught by the San Antonio Cops. After the drama ends, everyone goes back into their own worlds. This happened four years ago.
Before seeing that go down, my only experience with the Police was working in the same area with them at hospitals. The ones I got to know we're good people to me, whenever we would see each other, we would always speak for a few minutes before I had to go back to being a housekeeper. Then there were those two incidents of having flashlights fired at me.
The first time this happened, I was taking out the trash at the apartment I was living with my dad & younger brother at the time. I was 15 at the time. It was really dark outside with hardly any lights to see anything. I was walking towards the trash disposal when this light hit my face. At first, I thought maybe it was one of the teens I knew there playing around with me.
So I had a big smile on my face walking towards the light until I saw it was an officer of the law. That smile turned into having a concerned look on my face. He began asking me if I had seen anyone else outside? I told him no I hadn’t. He askes me one more time if I was sure? I told him yes I was. I didn’t have anything to hide. He says thank you and continues looking for whatever his mission is.
Meanwhile, I look for the disposal, put the trash in, and get the heck back inside. A gunfight could go down (I’m thinking in my head). Thankfully that didn’t happen, it was a quiet night.
The other time this happened, I was walking home from working at this hospital, this was when I had to walk from the Ingram Transit Center to my apartment. Fun walk that was. It only took like 20 minutes to get home every night. This night though, I was almost home, I could see the apartments coming up.
When I was coming upon them, I see three huge cop cars waiting nearby. I was startled by them, until then, I had never seen cop cars waiting like that before. I keep walking towards them to get home, their flashlights on their rides go in several directions.
When I get closer, all three aim at my face. If the officers would have said stop…I would have complied and stopped but they didn't say anything, so I kept walking home.
I feel fortunate to not have any negative experience with the Police. Truth be told, I've never worried about having to deal with police brutality. Is that a bad thing? I hope not. I wish we all could live without having that fear, then again, I can’t speak for someone who experienced that reality. If only there was a quick remedy to this everlasting problem that would make everyone happy, that would be great.
