#bluelivesmatter
Drugs are bad, mkay?
One of my dispatchers calls me. Says he has a weird one. I’m like okay, hit me.
“This guy wants a police officer to come out and stand by to keep him safe while he meets his drug dealer to explain that he has no money and can’t pay.”
Me:
Employee:
Me: Did you say he wants the police to stand with him while he waits for his dealer?
Employee: …..Yes. He’s not even there yet. He arranged this meeting in public in front of the library. He wants the officer to go first so he won’t be alone.
Just when I think nothing can surprise me, that damn phone rings again…
Me: “Communication supervisor.”
Caller: “Yeah I need to talk to that place where people go when they get arrested.”
Me: “You mean the jail?”
Called: “Yeah, something like that.”
Show me your BB shirts!
My trainee: “Which way did the clown go?”
Caller: “I didn’t see, but he came out of the sewer so he must have gone back that way.”
Me: “Did he say ‘sewer?’”
Trainee: “Sir, did you say ‘sewer?’”
Caller: “Yes. Down the sewer.”
Trainee: …..
Me: …..
Caller: …..
Trainee: “…like the Ninja Turtles?”
Guys, I’m dead.
Cloudy with a chance of clowns? I think not. Y'all, I’m up to my ears in these calls. I can’t decide if there are fools out there really putting on clown masks to terrorize people as a result of the news, or whether people are just losing their heads over nothing, or if everyone has drunk the koolaid and are all sharing the same hallucination. Who has a funny clown story?
Post link
https://medium.com/@rml12488/why-im-an-angry-afrikan-b79dadea7e06
Wrote about some of my first hand ordeals with systematic racism about 5 years ago inspired by the work of a young black woman who wrote on the same subject matter.
