We showed up on a call where a drunk and stoned black woman wouldn't stop bothering her neighbors. She was in the neighbor's apartment and refused to leave. My crew and I finally got her calmed down and out of the neighbor's apartment and were walking her back to her place to sleep it off when she went berserk again. She punched me in the eye and bit one of my crew members.
So I called our communications center on the radio and told them we were going to need police assistance. They didn't want to leave the donut shop, so after ten minutes our communicators called back and asked why we needed them. I replied that she had punched me in the eye for no reason and that we couldn't get her to stay settled down.
A couple cops finally showed up by the time our “patient” started behaving herself again. They were giving me a ration of crap and not keeping an eye on her, when the black lady went full on crazy and started attacking them. She got away and locked herself in her own apartment. About half a dozen more police cars showed up almost instantaneously and it took half a dozen police to wrestle her into the back of one of their cars.
After that it was all comedy for us. They finally broke her door down and it took six of them to wrestle her into the back of one of their cars. But then they decided that she needed an ambulance to take her to the hospital to make sure there was nothing seriously wrong with her before locking her up. It was there way of giving us back the hot potato. So we had to get her back out of the police car, and our protocol doesn't allow us to transport people with handcuffs on. So we had to strap her to a gurney and transport her, fortunately the paramedics were given permission to give her something that took the fight out of her.
I tell all that because the whole time this whacked out woman was running around her apartment making all sorts of noise and screaming, the police had surrounded the place and had a bunch of guns out. Just one trigger happy cop and we all would have been on the national news for “murdering” an innocent black woman.
Sorry, I see I should have proof read better before posting, but you get the picture. Just typical pandemonium that could easily have resulted in someone getting shot by the police.