I’m as anti the emerging police state as anybody, but my son in law is on the force down there. His family had traveled 250 miles today for his birthday party this evening, and TPD called him in for mandatory overtime tonight. Campbell and Euclid was the last place most of those guys wanted to be.
He got hit with a couple of bottles, but is otherwise okay. My son in law is a great young man, not a fascist. They didn’t gin up anything.
note that I wrote Police officials, not police officers. TPD was definitely correct to be prepared, but it was a dubious decision to escalate. Which put your SIL into harm’s way, btw, sorry to hear that he got beaned.
My son got hit with a beanbag down there tonight. Did him no permanent harm but hurt like hell. Pepper spray too. He admits they deserved it and we had a little chat about the lessons life teaches you. I’m just glad we didn’t have to bail him out of jail or see him in the hospital.
Wouldn’t it be funny if your son in law was the one who shot him.