Charles Blow: At Yale, the Police Detained My Son

[dismal]

When I was in college a guy went into the fraternity house when it was closed on some break setting off some sort of silent alarm, went to sleep in his own bed, and was woken up with 3 cops pointing guns in his face.

Well, that was extremely stupid on the cops' part. Why do you need to point *three* guns at a person who is asleep?

ETA: What's your point?

I thought it was anecdote time.

But I guess if there's a point it would be that my story, which is objectively worse than the OP case, was not much more than a funny story the guy told for a while. No New York Times coverage. No pages of outrage on blogs. To be fair blogs did not exist at the time.

 

[Mumbles]

Well, that was extremely stupid on the cops' part. Why do you need to point *three* guns at a person who is asleep?

ETA: What's your point?

I thought it was anecdote time.

But I guess if there's a point it would be that my story, which is objectively worse than the OP case, was not much more than a funny story the guy told for a while. No New York Times coverage. No pages of outrage on blogs. To be fair blogs did not exist at the time.

I'm going to guess that the guy was not the son of a New York Times columnist. The time I got slammed into a wall by a cop didn't make it into the papers, either.