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Fight On Monday

pinkgnomie13
pinkgnomie13

There was a fight in my hallway Monday.  I helped break it up.  In breaking it up, a kid grabbed at my throat, kicked me, and scratched my arm.  On Monday, two teachers said they saw that.  


Today I went to press charges.  The cop said none of that did, except for maybe - MAYBE - the stuff with my arm, because the marks are still there.  The teachers that 'saw' it happen - none of them were willing to testify in court that the kid grabbed my throat or even touched me at all.  The cop advised me to NOT press charges against the student.  They said they could easily prove it didn't happen.  They almost called me a drama queen because I dropped after my knee got kicked.


This is why I never pressed charges against any of my assailants.  There's no proof.  Just words.  The bruises fade, the redness fades to quick, the DNA evidence is swallowed...  This is why I don't trust anybody anymore.  People are supposed to have my back and they don't.  No one does.  No one cares.  


There is not a single drop of justice in this world for people like me.  I'm expendable.  I don't matter.  No one gives a damn.  That is all that is ever hammered into my brain and that is all that is ever going to stay there.


Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Good for you for breaking the fight up, Pink, but as I said before getting out of that school sounds like the best idea. I say that as a teacher myself who got tired of having to live on the edge with my PTSD in a school where such chaos was always about to happen.
pinkgnomie13
pinkgnomie13
About a dozen of my kids say they saw what happened. That is all I care about at this point. It happened. People saw it. People may not be willing to testify, but it happened.
I. Am. Not. Crazy.
arfie
arfie
No, Pink, you are not crazy on this one. It is crazy stuff and . . . Ouchies for all!!! There is no shortage of crazy stuff going on in our crazy world. Rising to fight every crazy dragon that crosses my path is enough to make me crazier than the dragons I am slaying. Beware you don't become the dragon you are fighting?

I like to pick my battles small enough to win and big enough to matter. Once I do decide a battle is small enough to win and big enough to matter, I start thinking strategy. The judicial system seldom has the best strategies.

I guess I'm rambling here. . . I'm not sure where all that is headed. I mostly wanted to offer you empathy and healing hopes.
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