So, tonight I was twitteranting about a report on the local FOX station. While searching for a murder suspect, the Tulsa PD opened the door of their K-9 unit, and the dog bolted, rushing into a yard and biting a seven-year-old boy who was playing in his own damned yard.
The cops just stood around, doing nothing; they offered neither apologies nor assistance. They had (or claimed to have) no first-aid kits in their cruisers, and — here’s the part that really kills me — forced the family to call 911 themselves rather than just calling the incident in. Got it? At least a half-dozen cruisers on the street, and they can’t radio for a bus to come check on the kid THEIR DOG injured.
We all know the real deal here, right? The cops basically stood around pretending nothing for which they might be responsible had occurred, because taking responsibility would open the police department up for a lawsuit. Actually doing their job of protecting and serving takes a backseat to covering their own asses. And we’re in that state of affairs because you can bet your ass that the family, if the police had taken responsibility for the incident, WOULD have sued, instead of accepting that shit just happens sometimes and being grateful that the police were trying to rectify their mistake. God forbid we fail to try and profit off misfortune.
I really fucking hate humanity, and demand that the aliens who abandoned me here to study this backward-ass species come get me.
Of course, immediately after that report, we had video filed by a reporter. I don’t know what the story was about, because I was too appalled by the fact that she was driving the news van while being filmed by the cameraman (who was in the passenger seat)… and she spent almost the entire time looking into the camera.
While driving.
Yeah.
