15 of 30 - Crime and Punishment

[aggienaut]

   Halfway done and I have five days to catch up with everyone else on the 30 entries in 30 days marathon. Haven't given up yet!


   As you may or may not know, about a year ago I got jumped by three guys just out to start a fight. One got a lucky shot at my temple that knocked me out, kicked me in the head while I was unconscious and ran away. The UCDPD officer assigned to the case declared it "just a fight" and refused to look into it. Within a month he was fired for general incompetence
   He claimed he was descriminated against, being a gay asian police officer, and after a huge publicity campaign catering to the campus which was all too eager to take up such a politically correct cause he was reinstated.

   Someone Kristy knows from high school, named Brendon Rose, recently got in a fight defending his twin brother, in which he knocked someone unconscious and kicked them in the head. They were in a coma for thirteen days. Brendon was sentenced to 8 years in prison, five of which were specifically for putting his opponent in a coma.

   By that reasoning then my assailants should get three years shouldn't they? The fact that I didn't go into a coma is incidental considering that what they did was the exact same thing Rose did, Rose just got unlucky.

   Personally I think three years is even a bit high, but my point is, something someone else got eight years for probably is not "just a fight" and not worth pursuing.
   In conclusion I still hold a lot of bitterness towards Officer Chang and the many people that took up his "discrimination" claim without considering that maybe he actually was incompetent.


Today
   I briefly ventured to the local pool hall, "Hot Shots," where my friend Kerry was hanging out. When I got there I saw my friend Jessica Hughs, whom I've seen twice now in the last four years or so. She joyfully announced to me that she just found out she's gonna have herself a baby.


Related
   Website: of Brendon Rose's supporters
   On Getting Jumped: UCDP Case #D306-992

Comments

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I was at the senate meeting when he addressed the senate. By far the most emotional I've ever felt at a senate meeting.. I was seething. I was really really torn as to whether to publicly confront him at the time when he was taking questions. Obviously I didn't but in retrospect I really really wish I had because obviously I'm still very bitter about it and it was certainly the only chance I'll ever get to confront him or the UCDPD about the case.