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Accrovideogames posted...

Oh, I thought you meant the 911 operator was suggesting you take refuge among the homeless people while the police was en route. This changes everything. The police failed big time.

Yeah, it was mostly a thing that occurred to me in retrospect. I was too freaked out at the time to even think of pushing back on what they were saying. Things turned out okay but I wonder how many victims of domestic violence those cops have done this to. It sucks.

As an aside, the cops where I live have a pretty good reputation, and we've had no issue with the BLM protests here because the cops aren't attacking our protestors. It's surprising because we have some pretty bad problems with racist enclaves in this region, mostly extreme religious groups, but the cops aren't connected to it.

Considering what you've been through, it's not surprising you have trouble responding well to situations like that.

My father was very horribly treated as a child from every angle (my grandmother used to beat him with metal hot wheel rod tracks and he and his brothers would hide from her in the laundry chute, they were very cruelly treated in school because of their accents and clothes, he had deeply traumatizing experiences as a volunteer firefighter, etc... :( ) and it's hard to hold a grudge against someone who's tried so hard to get better. His temper really is borderline uncontrollable without medication; it's irrational and spontaneous but it fades just as arbitrarily.

It's called phototoxicity....

Thanks for the detailed response. That's simultaneously horrifying and interesting. I hope they're able to come up with a better drug for you to take someday.

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