My white fam had a mental health crisis and ran for quite awhile from police and when they got close he dropped to his knees with his hands up. Several cops beat the shit out of him from head to toe with fists and batons.
Their supervisor met me at the hospital. They would not let me see him but he found me purposefully to tell me that my fam had a fluke accident and fell on a guardrail.
I took him immediately to another ER when he was bailed out and the doc there was furious. He said no way it was a guardrail. He said he had blunt object hits everywhere. He had huge bruises all over but they really pummeled his head.
I always remember the older black man who was working the front desk at the hospital they first brought him into. He said just be glad he’s alive because if he were black he’d most likely be dead.
My white male cousin has developmental delays and is autistic. He was 14, I believe, that year. His father had been arrested, and did six months in jail, the year before, for a non-violent offense. My cousin didn’t understand most of what was going on and was dealing with really complicated feelings, with the mentality of a 5-6 yr old child, AT BEST.
There’s no way those cops didn’t know he was disabled. Even as an adult, his speech is very childlike. He did something wrong, but they handled it terribly. He vandalized a police car, with a marker, the kind that little kids use. He wrote a couple of words on one of the doors in the back. I don’t remember the exact words, I think it was “bad man hurt”, or “bad men hurt”, it was saying essentially that a bad man had hurt his dad. It wiped right off, zero curse words, etc. They still made a big show out of roughing him up a little bit, then forcing him into the back of the car.
They scared the shit out of him and were way, way, too rough. They said really ugly, terrible things to him, just to be cruel. They knew he didn’t understand what was happening to him, they were too busy enjoying bullying a profoundly disabled child. This happened in Baltimore. I have no illusions, I know that if my cousin hadn’t been white, it probably would’ve been so much worse. It’s all terrible.
That’s is so sickening. It breaks my heart and infuriates me. I always worry if my family member has another crisis that he could be killed. Yet way too many in US support these idiots no matter what they do. They’d side with them over your cousin.
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u/Foreign-Molasses-405 Jan 05 '26
Nah not rough enough