The Obama Diary

A cop hit on me when I was 21 and drunk in front of a club. I told him to go f**k himself. He slammed me against a wall and when I resisted, wrestled me to the ground and arrested me. I was taken to the precinct and cuffed to a pipe in front of a drunk tank of men for 18 hours.

— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

I spent the weekend in custody, miserably hungover and sobbing, still wearing a miniskirt and high heels. When I was booked that Monday, I found out the cops wrote in their report that they arrested me because I walked up to them and said I had crystal meth on me.

— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

To be clear, I have never done meth, and if I had been, I certainly wouldn’t have volunteered that information to the police. I had no drugs on me when I was searched. They originally charged me with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer, both felonies with jail time.

— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

I was a junior at NYU. I had no criminal record and had never been arrested. I explained to the court lawyer that I was sexually harassed, which he told the judge. I think everyone just wanted it to go away, so I was given a drunk and disorderly warning and community service.

— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

Thinking about this now, I realize it would have happened very differently if I were black. In many ways, I was ultimately very lucky, and being a white-looking NYU student helped immensely. But there is a deeply sexist aspect to policing that also needs to be talked about.

— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

Women are supposed to call the police when we are sexually assaulted. When that happened later in my life, I didn’t, and looking back, I think that was probably part of the reason why. Racism is a major problem in our law enforcement. So is misogyny. Both should be addressed.

— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) June 18, 2020

I had a state trooper pull me over for speeding when I was 21. Kept me in his car on the side of the highway for nearly 2 hours. Huge guy.
I could hear other cops on his radio asking if he needed help. Seems there is a code for "go away I have a hottie" because they all laughed

— Elle Mac - St. Louis (@Elle_Mac_STL) June 18, 2020

And drove on.

He let me go with a warning.

Then started calling my job, my apartment, apartment management, etc asking about my schedule.

I was really scared. In a city 5 hours from home with no friends or family around.

— Elle Mac - St. Louis (@Elle_Mac_STL) June 18, 2020

Finally got a new job in another city Chicago to Springfield. A coworker's husband was a State Patrolman. I told him the story. He knew who I was talking about. Said the guy FINALLY got fired for doing that to dozens & dozens of women. 🤢 They knew about it all along.

— Elle Mac - St. Louis (@Elle_Mac_STL) June 18, 2020

In Denver there was a cop, Buster Snider, who sexually assaulted young girls for at least a decade, often when stopping them for traffic violations or innocent high school cruising. He finally got taken down by someone he raped. His cohorts stood by and never stopped him.

— The Milgram experiment had an exit door (@milehijules) June 19, 2020

My God.

Fired NC police officer on tape:

"We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them (expletive)”...“I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait.”

Civil war to “wipe them off the (expletive) map. That’ll put them back about four or five generations.” https://t.co/BAuWQe5xI2

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020

Port City Daily:

Fired Wilmington cop: “We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— ni—–. I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait.”

They posted the police internal investigation documents, with some of the most vile language you will ever read:https://t.co/X6ph6TjbYx

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020

Port City Daily reports:

One officer on tape talking about a Black woman he had arrested:

"She needed a bullet in her head right then and move on. Let's move the body out of the way and keep going."

Other officer replies:

"That's what I've been trying to tell you."

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020