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The police broke into our home when I was 12 based on an anonymous tip from a kid I didn't know at school that I was selling cocaine. They let themselves in ou
by dreamdu5t 13y ago
The police broke into our home when I was 12 based on an anonymous tip from a kid I didn't know at school that I was selling cocaine.
They let themselves in our home after waiting for my parents to leave one day, confronted me, then attempted to plant evidence in our garbage can (and didn't because I was smart enough at 12 to question why they were putting something IN our garbage can).
All because of another kid at school (12 years old!!!) I didn't know telling one adult that I sold cocaine, without any evidence.
- stcredzero 13y agoAnother measure of tyranny (especially of the accidental/incompetence instead of malice kind) is the ease with which false accusers can get away with lying, for how long, and how bad an impact it can have on the accused. Another way of putting it: In your society, how toxic and volatile is suspicion? No society is perfect, and even though things are great in many ways, society in the US definitely has some oppression in it. The way forward is to take off political blinders (both left and right) and to be honest with ourselves about it.
- billybob255 13y agoSo the police stopped planting evidence because a 12 year old called them out on it? This sounds like a made up story.
- hga 13y agoNah, you can assume at least one of them had a slumbering conscience that was awakened, and/or they weren't willing to kill the 12 year old witness and knew his testimony plus perhaps forensics would reveal, or at least put into sufficient question, their planting of evidence.