• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’d agree in many cases but not this one.

    This wasn’t a husband, it was a father of one of the women’s kids. He didn’t live there, and he showed up “irate” at 4am. She felt unsafe, and not unreasonably so. If you genuinely feel unsafe and can’t leave the situation (for any number of reasons), that’s when you roll the dice and call the cops.

    This is also a black woman living in Mississippi, so even if she’s lucky enough to have never been on the receiving end of shitty police behavior, she possibly had a better appreciation than most what might show up at her door if she called them. She was still unnerved enough to call. Maybe she didn’t think it through, but again, I don’t think it was the wrong impulse.