Yup. Here's the deal: I can't figure out why a cop would put a choke hold on some woman outside her house just because she called 911 over a domestic dispute. She was just standing there, explaining things to the cop who showed up, so he choked her out? I don't think so.
There's more to the story, I'm thinking, hence my "Cops" reference.
What you are doing here, MM, is failing to "beware the statistics of small samples". If you had a thousand randomly-selected women who had called 911 over a domestic dispute and someone claimed that the cops acted wrongly in most or all of those cases then it would make much more sense to react as you did than in the present instance where you have a single, self-selected individual relating their own experiences. Ask yourself the question "If they made the call and the cop acted correctly, would they be more or less likely to describe their experience on this thread than if the cops had behaved wrongly", etc. The bottom line here is that you are calling a fellow FReeper a liar (and doing so in a mocking, belittling way, despite the poster's claim that she was traumatized by the incident), and you are doing so based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever. That sucks big time, dude!
It wouldn't be the first time that a cop went after the victim instead of the perp. Could have been a bad cop who beats his own wife, or there might have been some reason for the mistake, like the drunken husband call police claiming somebody was trying to break into the house. It's pretty rude to address your no-evidence conclusions about something like that to the person who's relating the story as one in which she was the victim.
I understand your disbelief. I was in shock myself. I come from a cop family! Things like this just don't happen to me.
When my husband sobered up, he was appalled too, it was so "out there". But it happened.
I didn't call 911 either, i just called a regular number. It wasn't an emergency.
Anyway, it took all the guts i had just to tell this, so I will leave it at that. My stomach hurt all afternoon just from posting it. Maybe i shouldn't have, but it just seemed the time.