"Just A Fight" - The Further Antics of Davis Police

[aggienaut]

   So today I'm walking off campus in search of the Education Abroad Office, along third street. So I pass a parked police care right on the corner next to the mobile hot-dog cart and am like "hm thats odd, whats it doing HERE." but continue on my way...
   Suddenly I hear shouting and scuffling behind me. Turn around and at first I think there are three frat guys joking around or something: three muscular guys are in a pile on the ground.. but then I see "POLICE" written on one guys dark blue shirt. The guy on the bottem had a shaved head and was saying "please sir, I can't breath, please sir!" (serious, he was definitely saying "please sir"), while the officer and this guy in a pink shirt yelled "stop moving!" Eventually they subdued the individual and approximately hella police officers arrived on the scene, as well as an ambulance eventually (just to confirm they had not injured the suspect I guess).
   Apparently NO ONE saw what happened. An officer that came up to a bunch of us to ask if any of us saw it said "I don't really know myself... I think he was resisting the officer or something." Talking to the guy that worked the hot-dog cart was more informative: "that one officer has been hanging out here on the corner all day ... he met up with the guy in the pink shirt for about ten seconds and then they both rushed that other guy..." I was rather unclear on what event he meant they had waited ten seconds from. There was significant speculation among the various onlookers that the guy in the pink shirt was an undercover officer. In a pink shirt. Silly.
   No sign of our favorite Officer Chang.
   And too bad hot dogs at the hot dog cart are $3 and aren't even grilled.

Comments

oh yeah!

[yazzychicken.livejournal.com]

so... under cover police officers wear pink shirts... hmm.. interesting... I think I saw a guy with a pink shirt on the other day, maybe he was an officer.... *ponders*

Re: oh yeah!

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

or more importantly. maybe he was "under cover" if you get my drift.

bacon wrapped hot dogs mmmm

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Dammnnn I wish. Did you happen to see any of the several entries in which I lauded the many virtues of these glorious rods of processed meat. Too bad they didn't pass the health inspection and had to be banished. ::single tear:: rancid hot dogs how I miss you!

(and no, I do not believe bacon wrapped hot dogs are available at the hot dog cart.. "the hot dogger" apparently has a more permanent establishment somehwere in town but I've never been there)

[aiimmmee.livejournal.com]

strange..

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

true

[citizene.livejournal.com]

That sounds a little sketchy...so the obvious cop was chilling on the corner, the undercover lad met up with him at maybe a predetermined time or something, and then they brought the law down hard on a man with no hair. Skinhead shoplifted from that bookstore? Meth deal gone awry? Cops looking for a rush? Pink shirt = gay prostitution sting? I wonder if the story will make it into the paper...

UCDPD Detectives

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yea.. I'm thinking maybe the guy was runnin drugs off that corner or smething. Davis is such an exciting place.

The UCD PD (note: not referring to the CITY here)(note to non Davis readers: the city and the university have completely seperate police departments) actually has detectives. How much detective work is there on campus? I learned this from the newspaper article last year about how some dumb girl got a parking ticket and tried to flee, but was caught by davis detectives (who apparently happened to be sitting there in their car in completely unrelated business) and then claimed she was persecuted for being black, whereas really she was just dumb as fuck.

[lilmisscourty.livejournal.com]

ummmmm...you realize that officer chang was fired, right?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

do you have a source for that other than the fact that I said he was fired in my last entry, or are you knowingly telling me my own facts? (reference in this entry was a joke, if he WAS still on the force it would be silly to expect him to show up)

[lilmisscourty.livejournal.com]

oh...haha..i don't normally read all my friend's entries, so i didn't realize that you said he was fired...and yes, i have another source and i know why he got fired. pissyness kris, pissyness.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Really? Whats your other source? Whats your information on why he got fired? Is it HIS story that Lieutenant Carmichael loathed him and conspired to get him fired because he was asian? Such sauce.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Well, this is what we got:

>Dear Friends,
>An openly gay & Asian UC Davis Police Officer was fired under questionable
>circumstances after he had completed 97% of his probationary period. There
>are indications of harrassment about his race (he was the only Asian
>American officer on the force) and his sexual orientation. =( His
>biography shows that he was a veteran of the City of Davis's Police
>Department before transfering to UC and that he's done some incredible
>work on hate crimes, including speaking at the UCLGBTIA conference at
>Riverside.
>Please take a look at the website and if you can, please write to the
>administration to express your outrage at the discrimination and urge them
>to reinstate Officer Chang and punish the colleagues who did this.
>http://home.pacbell.net/callzone/
>-Original Message-
>From: cbchang [mailto:cbchang@ucdavis.edu]
>Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:01 AM
>Subject: Openly Gay UC Davis Police Officer Fired
>Dear fellow UCLGBTIA Members,
>I was recently fired from my position as a Police Officer for the UC Davis
>Police Department. I would appreciate any support letters and other
>support.
>Here is a link to my case:
>http://home.pacbell.net/callzone/
>Please also forward this to anyone or any listserve.
>Sincerely,
>Calvin B. Chang
>Calvin B. Chang, M.S.
>Davis, CA
>cchang@ucdavis-alumni.com
>http://people.bu.edu/cbchang/index.html

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I don't presume to know the truth about the matter, but I am very disturbed that the many who have been contacted by him DO for the most part assume that what Calvin Chang alleges is the truth. He may have been the victim of discrimination, all I personally know is that in the one instance I had interaction with him his actions were as far as I can tell grossly less than the situation warranted. The assumption that BECAUSE he is a gay asian inherently means he CANNOT be incompetent is ridiculous.