When I was a student at Fuller Seminary I was involved in a minor traffic accident in Pasadena CA due to the other driver running a red light. I ended up face down with several police officers on my back, resulting in permanent injury & pain. They over-reacted, bullied, used excessive force, failed to “de-escalate” , & made several significant errors of judgment & discretion. And yet despite being a college graduate with honors & having never been in “trouble” before, all the blame was aimed at me, without apology. This was at the time that a guy named Melenkian was chief. As a Christian I do believe in “turning the other cheek” but also in appropriately addressing wrongs so that they don’t happen again. I took action against them, & I am fairly certain those specific police officers will never do what they did to me to anybody else again. Nonetheless, the damage they caused to me was permanent (chronic pain for life, among other things).

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KEEPING AN EYE ON PASADENA PD: WHAT THEY SAY VERSUS WHAT THEY DO

(paid by taxpayers? ) PASADENA POLICE CULTURE CONTINUES TO ENABLE BULLYING , ON & OFF-DUTY "Door-to-door salesman gets $750,000 for off-duty Pasadena cop pointing gun and detaining him ... Cohen said being held on the ground at gunpoint for nine minutes will mean a lifetime of emotional distress for Segura..."


"45-year-old Officer Sam Priyamal De Sylva...PASADENA POLICE CULTURE CONTINUES TO ENABLE BULLYING , ON & OFF-DUTY   "Door-to-door salesman gets $750,000 for off-duty Pasadena cop pointing gun and detaining him ... Cohen said being held on the ground at gunpoint for nine minutes will mean a lifetime of emotional distress for Segura..."
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2018/12/28/lawsuit-door-to-door-salesman-wants-902000-for-pasadena-cop-pointing-gun-at-him/