So update I didn’t see here yet. Payne was fired by the ambulance company he worked at part time. He is heard on his body cam saying he would deliberately bring the transient patients on his runs to this hospital in retaliation.
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The comment was alluded to upthread, but not that Gold Cross had fired him:
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Speaking as someone lucky/unfortunate enough to benefit from the National Health Service/be subject to government death panels (take your pick), I don’t understand this.
Do ambulances get to pick and choose who they take to hospital in the US - and which hospital they take them to?
In a private payer system, who pays for the ambulance ride?
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Apparently I can post something that is at least subjectively true, and other people will extrapolate that out into some kind of persecution fantasy that offends them, causing them to try to eradicate my post from public sight.
I’ve had a small town cop grind the barrel of his sidearm into my head, safety off and finger on the trigger, for the crime of taking my hand off the steering wheel in a routine traffic stop.
I’ve watched a county cop beat a gas station attendant so badly he was laid up for days (broke his nose, too) for the crime of “talking smart”.
I could go on, but the people here invested in preventing coalition, the people who reject Dr. King’s dream, aren’t going to credit any of it; it’s like they don’t want people of differing races, genders, creeds, and sexual orientation to find any common ground opposing the police.
I’m surprised by the flagging myself. I’d be even more surprised if it was flagged by any of the people who bothered to reply to it.
As to getting offended by it, I suppose it depends how you parse it.
If you read it as: “Even from my perspective as a white, male hetero police brutality and overreach seem to be an everyday occurrence in America. This shit is completely fucked up and needs to be stopped” I doubt anyone has a problem with it.
If you read it as “I’m a white male hetero and get this stuff too, it’s just life, suck it up snowflake”, I can see why someone might get pissed off.
I read it as the first but I think it legitimately could be read either way. You didn’t really give enough context to let people know how to take it.
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Thanks for that, I just woke up and wasn’t seeing it. I was interpreting the flagging as either counter-revolutionary or simple bigotry. So I guess I was leaping to conclusions too.
For whatever it’s worth (probably everything you paid for it 
) I was intending your first parse; I fear cops on my property and around my children more than I fear criminals. Criminals are easier to deal with by far.
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fwiw i didn’t flag your hidden post above but i when i read it i saw it in terms of @L0ki’s second possible reading. my immediate thought was “that’s fucked up.” putting some of the context with the comment which you added later would have reduced the pushback you got.
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