From: Pele@yabbs
To: Nforcer@yabbs
Subject: re: Police
Date: Sat Aug  6 02:40:05 1994

I know this is a little late.  I generally don't come to this base.  I'm
really sorry to hear about your friend and I really sincerely hope that
something like that will never happen again.  

However. I have to let you know why I can't bring myself to go out of my
way to help the police.

I am an African American.  One night about a year and a half ago (almost
two years) a friend of mine (who is white) and I were driving down
Biscayne Blvd. in  Miami, Fl.  We got pulled over (for reasons I'm still
trying to ascertain) and the cop started to harass us, particularly me.
He pulled me out of the car and asked me for I.D. and searched me for any
drugs.  Finally he turned to my friend and said to her "how the fuck can
you have this nigger in your car?"  I snapped and grabbed his nightstick
and beat the fuck out of him.  

I turned myself in and before I got a chance to see a lawyer or anything
(and I haven't told anyone this until now) his two friend pulled me into a
little room and beat the snot out of me (making sure to hit me in places
where it won't easily be seen).  After that, they sent me home without
pressing charges.  I couldn't walk straight for a week.  Do you know why I
didn't do anything about it?  Because the entire force was made up of the
same kinda shit that did what they did to me!  I had no chance.

So, that's my story.  I am sypmathetic to your friends and your situation
but I can't see myself telling my congressman to give these assholes more
nightsticks to kick my ass because I'm black.

sorry

-Pele-