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[–] MuhammadJesusGaySex 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is one of many reasons why I got off of opiates. I spent a lot of time worrying about saying/ doing the wrong thing and winding up in jail. Then I’d detox in jail.

About 5 months after I got off of opiates I recorded some police officers arresting a man. At one point like 4 officers had this man on the ground and one officer started punching him. I started shouting at the officers that they had the man on his stomach. They didn’t have to punch him.

One of the officers approached me and told me to leave. I can’t begin to tell you how good it felt to tell him that I didn’t have to leave and wasn’t going to leave. I was fully prepared to go to jail over speaking up for a man I never met.

It’s a god damn shame the amount of freedom we as a society have given up for a false sense of safety.