A Life Interrupted Nothing Is As It Appears

August 20, 2014

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 4

After a five minute pow-wow the two officers split up. The second officer went back to his cruiser, pulled away from the curb and disappeared into the night.  Constable Shithead entered into the driver’s seat of our cruiser and started the engine.

“What’s happening?” I asked anxiously through the plexi-glass divider on the back of his seat that stood between us.

“Shut up!” he barked with what I had come to recognize as his usual charm. He accelerated the cruiser away from the curb and drove off down the road heading to the outskirts of town with the dash cluster casting a dim blue light upon his visage the side of which I could see over his right shoulder. read more

August 9, 2014

Langley, B.C.: Policemen Aren’t Your Friends Part 3

Seeing that I was no longer any risk of resisting the policeman stood up.  Towering over me, he reached with his right hand across his upper torso to the mic of his radio located on his left shoulder and called for back-up, not that I was in a position too pose any threat. Pulling a set of cuffs from his belt, the policeman knelt down, rolled me over on my stomach, and cuffed my hands behind my back. He then angrily told me to get up lifting me by my bound hands at the same time. He walked me over to the cruiser, opened the back door, and roughly shoved me inside. I had caught my breath and, not daunted by my wounded pride and rough treatment, anger burned in my gut. read more

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