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A Police Officer Asks For Thanks...

By David Packman

After all the threats and intimidating messages from police officers that I had to endure lately, one has insisted that I should thank them for this:

My answer?

Well, yes, I should? and I did. I?ve thanked him in person and I?ve tried to thank him via the OPA commendation process (which was ignored as was my complaint about mistreatment). I appreciate that he did his job professionally and was honest enough to admit that I did nothing wrong and deserved to be freed, albeit two full months after I was charged with a crime I didn't commit. If there is another way I should thank him, let me know.

But, since this commenter appears to know who I should thank for freeing me when it was finally realized that I did nothing wrong? I would like to ask this officer about the other officers I need to thank...

I'd like to ask him which officer I should thank for my mistreatment in custody?

Which officer should I thank for telling jail guards to ignore my pleas for medical assistance?

Which officer should I thank for interrogating me while I stood there naked and bleeding?

Which officers should I thank for laughing at my suffering and calling me names while I laid there bleeding and struggling for breath on that concrete floor in that holding cell?

Which officer should I thank for telling paramedics to stop examining me?

Which officer should I thank for telling the intake nurse at the jail to stop assessing my injuries?

Which officer should I thank for the month of torture and agony without treatment in the King County Jail that I was forced to endure for doing nothing wrong?

Which officer should I thank for the intimidation and death threats I?ve received for writing about police accountability issues?

Which officer should I thank for not stopping the beating that I endured which left me with permanent brain damage that could have been helped if I wasn't denied medical treatment?

Which officer should I thank for throwing me head first into a police car door when I was already injured?

Which officer should I thank for these headaches that never stop, the nightmares I constantly endure, and the abject fear I have of them for what they did?

Which officers should I thank for refusing to consider that what was done to me was wrong?

Which officer should I thank for refusing to accept responsibility for their part in happened to me?

Which officer should my children thank for taking their father away from them on false charges?

Which officers should I thank for the thousands in medical bills I'm paying for, that the people who are responsible for my injuries will never be held accountable for?

Yes, I should give credit and thanks where it is due, and the officer who admitted that I did nothing wrong and should be released 2 full months after I had been punished deserves his own thanks... which I dutifully gave.

But why should I not expect accountability when it is due as well?

You insist I thank those responsible for a justice delayed... but what of those responsible for the injustices that remain?

Full post as published by Injustice in Seattle on April 06, 2008 (boomark / email).