I lost my cool and rather than respond like a sensible person to one who is enraged with calmness, Officer Ramdani (as far as I can tell from the sloppy handwriting) responded with anger and aggression, heightening my own anger, and I believe he did it intentionally.

He wanted me to be “cowed”, to quail at his power, and was going to use everything he had to assert his authority at the most inopportune time instead of cooling the situation. It was very much as if he were sporting for a fight. I feel he was intentionally egging me on because once I realized it and turned away from him to call a friend with a camera, he changed tactics, becoming condescending, demeaning and taunting me, trying his hardest to get a rise out of me again.

I wasn’t allowed a moment to vent my grief and wrath, which was all I needed. Once my friend and his mother arrived to take pictures, the officer told the woman who hit my car to leave, knowing full well that I intended to take pictures of the scene. He threatened me every time I tried to speak saying he would arrest me and write me a ticket. Even my friend’s mother was getting upset at his attitude. He didn’t file a police report, only an exchange of information.

I don’t understand why he was being so provocative. Aren’t police officers trained how to deal with angry people? Even common sense would tell a person that responding to anger with aggression is wrong. But then I guess a person would have to be intelligent enough to be educated, and there IS the fact that common sense isn’t so common…