Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Still here. The cop who told me not to go anywhere seemed sympathetic, but he explained there's still uncollected bullets the the CSI team needs to find, and they haven't had a chance to interview everyone yet. Either he's a genuinely nice guy or he's simply been trained well, but he was so apologetic and polite about it, I didn't have the heart to be a dick about it and force the issue. So here I remain.
Apparently the guy running away was wildly firing bullets everywhere as he ran away. He could've easily killed several people. In the hour between first hearing the gunshots and the uniform showing up at my door, I apparently missed a LOT of action.
did it bother you that you had to stay home? did you have some place to go?
and if you had some place you genuinely had to go do you think they would've let you go?
Yeah, it did bother me. I didn't have anything epically important to do, but I'd had some errands I'd wanted to get done, and I was going to go watch a movie with a friend later that night. Even if I HAD had something important to do, they wouldn't have let me go. My neighbor had a friend fly in from Cali to go see a concert, and the cops wouldn't allow them to leave, so they missed out on it. Another person was trying to pick someone up from the airport, wasn't allowed to leave either.
What bothers me the most, however, is that a detective never came to talk to me. I stayed up until midnight and then simply went to bed. I was detained for literally no reason whatsoever. Later on at night I was at least allowed to go outside, and most of my neighbors had gathered for an impromptu barbecue at someone's house, so we hung out drinking some beers and complaining about being trapped at home (which was surprisingly fun, most of my neighbors I hadn't met before), but nobody was allowed to leave the property until about 5 AM. Which means we were under lockdown for over 12 hours, and again, for apparently no reason.
There's not much to be done about it though. It's not like I'm going to sue over something like this. This incident hasn't increased my general hatred of cops, either, as the ones on the ground I spoke to were just as annoyed with the situation as I was. It was just a sucky situation.