The last one, however, seemed urgent at the time. Also, I was really drunk...
So about two weeks ago my bro Turner and I carried on with our normal Friday night ritual of going to the bar and getting blind stinking drunk. We met up with some old friends from high school and continued with the drinking. I don't remember the exact time we all decided to leave for another bar, but I remember it being around 12:30 am.
We were within walking distance to the next bar, so Turner and I decided to meet the rest of our party there, who were traveling by car.
*A quick P.S.A. Don' t drink and drive. It's dangerous.*
We get to "The Strip", where the next bar was, and it appears our friends were in a bit of a scuffle with some of the local douche-bag-frat-bros in front of Pita Pit. Supposedly, one of the d. bags through an entire pita at my friends car and started yelling a bunch of racist shit at her, she is noticeably native American. Let's call her Deana. What was said exactly, I don't know, this had happened before Turner and I got there. But, by the time we roll up, it's a full on brawl, people started pushing each other, grappling with each other, and punching each other, a dude even got choked out. So all this shit is going on, and another friend, Deric, who happens to be black/one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life, non violently stands up for his friend, who was publicly being verbally assaulted, and is immediately tackled and pinned up against a car. While Deric is defenselessly pinned down by d. bag #2, d. bag # 3 runs at full speed and clocks him in the dome. D. bag #3 is quickly grabbed by his bro and ushered into the Coney Island where he wasn't confronted on his act of cowardice.
By this time the cops show up and start to get the situation under control and as they are calming everyone down, they put Deric and Deana's boyfriend in cuffs. If there were two people involved in this whole mess to be put in cuffs it most certainly should not have been them.They eventually let Deana's white boyfriend go, but arrest Deric for public intoxication. To add insult to injury, while he's sitting in a cell, he asks the arresting officer when he will be released and a "hampering" charge is added to his ticket.
I know in the grand scheme of things this really isn't that bad. But, it was totally wrong, and still a little hard for me to take. A black dude got a P.I. after he was attacked by a group of drunken white frat boys. Racist shit happens all the time and everywhere, it's just hard to believe that it's so blatant.
The only conclusion I can come to after seeing this is not to trust frat boys or cops, and that life is unfair. Which isn't far, at all, from where I was before. I suppose the only thing I regret about the whole ridiculous fight/arrest is that I didn't pull out my phone and record it, just so everyone could see how fucking stupid it was. But, I do live in Stillwater, Oklahoma, so I'm sure I'll have more chances to catch frat boys and cops being assholes.
Peace
We were within walking distance to the next bar, so Turner and I decided to meet the rest of our party there, who were traveling by car.
*A quick P.S.A. Don' t drink and drive. It's dangerous.*
We get to "The Strip", where the next bar was, and it appears our friends were in a bit of a scuffle with some of the local douche-bag-frat-bros in front of Pita Pit. Supposedly, one of the d. bags through an entire pita at my friends car and started yelling a bunch of racist shit at her, she is noticeably native American. Let's call her Deana. What was said exactly, I don't know, this had happened before Turner and I got there. But, by the time we roll up, it's a full on brawl, people started pushing each other, grappling with each other, and punching each other, a dude even got choked out. So all this shit is going on, and another friend, Deric, who happens to be black/one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life, non violently stands up for his friend, who was publicly being verbally assaulted, and is immediately tackled and pinned up against a car. While Deric is defenselessly pinned down by d. bag #2, d. bag # 3 runs at full speed and clocks him in the dome. D. bag #3 is quickly grabbed by his bro and ushered into the Coney Island where he wasn't confronted on his act of cowardice.
By this time the cops show up and start to get the situation under control and as they are calming everyone down, they put Deric and Deana's boyfriend in cuffs. If there were two people involved in this whole mess to be put in cuffs it most certainly should not have been them.They eventually let Deana's white boyfriend go, but arrest Deric for public intoxication. To add insult to injury, while he's sitting in a cell, he asks the arresting officer when he will be released and a "hampering" charge is added to his ticket.
I know in the grand scheme of things this really isn't that bad. But, it was totally wrong, and still a little hard for me to take. A black dude got a P.I. after he was attacked by a group of drunken white frat boys. Racist shit happens all the time and everywhere, it's just hard to believe that it's so blatant.
The only conclusion I can come to after seeing this is not to trust frat boys or cops, and that life is unfair. Which isn't far, at all, from where I was before. I suppose the only thing I regret about the whole ridiculous fight/arrest is that I didn't pull out my phone and record it, just so everyone could see how fucking stupid it was. But, I do live in Stillwater, Oklahoma, so I'm sure I'll have more chances to catch frat boys and cops being assholes.
Peace
