This week I tremble... I was driving down a one way street when a policeman in Providence RI. (driving up the wrong way) approached my car and told me to back the F#@* off. I said excuse me? There was an intersection behind me nearly impossible for me to back my car off into a bustling intersection. He began to scream I SAID MOVE YOUR F *&$ CAR! He then reached in my car grabbed my cell phone (which I had turned on to call a witness) and threw it across the street. My car was in reverse because I was complying but he grabbed me through my window around my neck as if he was trying to drag me out of my car through the window... He then opened my car door and he began to pull me out. (I let him do it, he didnt realize I was so tall).4 policemen showed up pulled out sticks and began beating every window they could see out of my car. (Im standing outside of my car watching policeman beat my windows out. The initial policeman that started the conflict began to push me from car to car.( My busted car to his squad car) I believe in an effort to get me to fight them... I did not... After a moments of idiotic roughhousing one officer noticed the Brown University license plate and I heard him say he had a gun. I shouted to the top of my lungs HELP ! HELP SOMEONE PLEASE COME SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO ME HELP! ... They put me in handcuffs and sat me in the back of a squad car (no one would talk to me. They called their captain he ignored me too... I sat back in that car for at least an hour) they took me to jail... To this day I cannot tell you what made him do this. They allowed me to bail myself out of jail then next morning after a phone call from my dad. Once released I went home got on my computer and WROTE... I wrote line by line the events that happened that night. I sent it to everybody I knew...Someone read, someone listened. The laundry list of false charges he trumped up left me shaken when the university actually read to me what he said I did. Luckily I was doing a show at Trininty Rep theater where a philanthropist and lawyer sat on the board who agreed to take my case pro bono. I went to court about 3 times never said word and on my last appearance they offered me a contract saying that they would drop and expunge my record if I signed saying I would not sue. My lawyer advised to me: Listen, you can do the Jesse Jackson thing and try to fight this but you will be involved with this for years and years to come or this can all go away right now. I wanted it to be over. The fact that another human being could take my life and so carelessly change the direction of my path without empathy or remorse or conscious is mind-blowing. It haunts me to this day. How many people wont respond so calmly when disrespected by pigs like this man and get killed? How many people have this happen and dont have an ivy league school in their corner? I signed... In some ways I feel like I let the community down. Today I realize my life was on the line in 2007. I tremble.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:39:41 +0000
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