To Protect and Serve

Speaking of horrifically stupid . . .

It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on.

As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."

Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy." One of the men covered her mouth. Two of the men beat her about the face and throat.

As it turned out, the three men were plain-clothed Galveston police officers who had been called to the area regarding three white prostitutes soliciting a white man and a black drug dealer.

Oops. Of course, these morons are now being sued by the family for being too stupid to live. What happens next is the part that just makes me crazy. If I were the police in question, I would apologize, I would take responsibility and do whatever I could to make it up to this family. But not these morons.

Three weeks later, according to the lawsuit, police went to Dymond's school, where she was an honor student, and arrested her for assaulting a public servant. Griffin says the allegations stem from when Dymond fought back against the three men who were trying to take her from her home.

Both the daughter and the father were arrested for assaulting a peace officer. "The father basically attacked police officers as they were trying to take the daughter into custody after she ran off."

As far as I'm concerned, these guys are lucky the parents didn't have a gun. What would any parent do when three plain-clothed men are trying to pull their daughter, kicking and screaming, into a van? How can these police not understand that their actions were by any standard appalling and would have been terrifying to any family? Why aren't their superiors stepping in to put a stop to this? And don't they know that their further behavior just makes it worse?

I hope these doofuses are sued to within an inch of their life and fired. They're lucky they're not being prosecuted.