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

( i saw something like this in pasadena ca too ) COP HELPS HIMSELF AT McDONALDS ? "Cop loses it when customers film him helping himself to a McFlurry"

 ( i saw something like this in pasadena ca too ) COP HELPS HIMSELF AT McDONALDS ? "Cop loses it when customers film him helping himself to a McFlurry"  ... 

i was at the rose parade and a Chevron gas station owner offered some LA Sheriff deputies some free food at his gas station if they would take his side in a dispute about people on the grass in front of his gas station .. and the cops did exactly what he asked them to do... despite the fact that he did NOT own the grassy area in front of the gas station..it was public property. A few minutes later the cops walked out with their hands full of food and drinks. This kind of behavior by cops kills morale when people begin to believe that they get to enforce the law but do not have to abide by it themselves.