
08-22-2007, 07:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Victim-Police Ignored me?
Florida. I was assaulted on a date. I ran from the house screaming and a police car drove by and stopped. I was hysterical and in shock but told them we had to go back to the house and the one officer said "why do you want to go back there for?" which upset me even more-I felt like I was in more danger. They asked for my ID, they asked if I had been drinking (and I told them I had a few drinks, but over 5 hours, so I wasn't drunk), they asked if I wanted to call a friend. It was midnight in a dead neighborhood-I'm on the sidewalk scared and screaming. I don't remember them asking me I was hurt at all or anything like it.
I couldn't spit out any intelligible words for the most part, but I think I told them he hurt me. I don't remember, but I know I told them we had to go back to the house. The guy left his house, got in his car and circled us twice or three times (I pointed out his car to the officers) and the officers didn't do anything when I said there he is. I felt I was in danger and asked the officers to get me out of that neighborhood. We stopped at a gas station and called my friends who picked me up. Then my friends took me to the hospital. The hospital notified the police of the assault. The detectives got a search warrant the following late afternoon and confronted him, which he immediately invoked his rights.
Is it right what the first officers did? Should I just let this go?
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