Yesterday morning I started my day as usual...a couple cups of coffee and a train ride. I got to work early to set up a training program we were running here. A woman, a trainee, arrived complaining of chest pains. I called 911 and ran (literally) to the drug store for aspirin, (Beyer of course...I was remembering those 90's commercials where the guy has a heart attack while playing basketball and is saved by Beyer). In 4 minutes flat, 5 suited up firemen and 2 EMT's show up ready for action. I was so amazed 1) at their arrival time, 2) how many came and 3) how nice and helpful they were. It turns out the woman was fine. Beaming all day, I boasted on the NYFD and EMT's. I was in love with the kindness of others. Amazed. BUT then...in NY for every good action there is an unequal terrible reaction.
Steve and I were getting on the subway after dinner with his mom. We go through the turnstile and five or six cops come up the platform and one pulls his gun on a Chinese man and another starts roughing up a teenager. Steve and I were notably freaked...but the cops giggled a little and just walked away, not even really saying anything. "Sorry, we were looking for someone in a black jacket" Umm...ok. We thought it was a joke, that they knew the men they were harassing, like some undercover cop joke... we asked, but no, they were just some guys. I was pissed. What kind of cop pulls his gun and laughs about it? Especially when I counted 34 people in black jackets on the ONE subway car I was on. Assholes.
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