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>Once the court officers caught their breath from laughing, they barked at him, “Where is your belt?” Of course, it was taken from him in the lockup, he said.
by desdiv 10y ago
>Once the court officers caught their breath from laughing, they barked at him, “Where is your belt?” Of course, it was taken from him in the lockup, he said.
I don't like to watch crime/legal drama and even I know this. How does someone who work in the legal system as a day job not notice this?
- nkurz 10y agoThe writer's implication is that officers of the court knew in advance that his belt had been taken from him, and simply enjoyed humiliating people who they consider beneath them. It's akin to arresting someone for getting blood on your uniform after you beat them: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/12/348010247/in-ferguson-mo-before-michael-brown-there-was-henry-davis http://www.npr.org/2014/09/12/348010247/in-ferguson-mo-befor.... What background are you from that allows you to presume ignorance is more likely than malice? Are you perhaps from a more civilized country where those in power don't use petty humiliation to assert their superiority? Or were you employing some sort of subtle trolling humor that flies over the heads of us Americans?
- desdiv 10y agoI completely missed the implication that it was out of malice. My naive self wasn't able to, and still can't, imagine an officer of the court deriving pleasure from humiliating someone like that. I would be so screwed if I ever end up on the wrong end of the American criminal justice system.