Mini-Me Disturbing

As my daughter and I pushed our cart throught Wal-mart parking lot yesterday around 4:30 p.m. we noticed a squad car just in front of my jeep. We eased up to get a better view just as a bald, jackbooted officer began his theme scream from Bad Boys Bad Boys - "Get down, get down, get down on the ground." Now on our side of town on a Saturday night this is heard occasionally - but we were in the parking lot of Wal-mart with white folks on a weekday afternoon for heavens sake.

My first thought was to hit the ground as gunfire might erupt but then we heard the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp. My first view of the recipient, his car just in front of mine, was a twitching jerking figure, sprawled on the ground next to his car with a weeping and screeching young girl in the passenger seat.

The few of us in the front row (4 white 4 Black) were totally shocked and awed. The incident had taken place so quickly and with little provocation. Something ominous hung over our little crowd. As if witnessing a grim future, a warning notice. It was so over the top and so public.

It seems this is what occured: Wal-mart has no security here in Bumfudge and request the local copshop to patrol for them which our city tax funds apparently are happy to do. An officer doing a parking lot drive through claims he witnessed the young man allegedly smack his girlfriend and, being the chivalrous knight in midnight blue armor, he came to her rescue. The girlfriend was sobbing he had NOT hit her, but too late, young dragon boy was felled by one zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp. From my view I did not see the boy make any threats or provoke this response. Likely he'll be issued a citation and pay a fine; the city needs more revenue to patrol Wal-mart.

The young man, stunned and cuffed was walked to a cruiser. One of the robocops, grinning, strutted over to our small group and asked if we saw anything. I saw how disturbing it is to witness up close a human body spasm and twitch while a skin-headed barrel-chested cop stood by like God. My daughter (out of work comedienne) remarked she was in shock that they needlessly tazer white people too. Mini-Me cop missed the humor in that one but everyone else laughed (nervously).