Police officer conduct?

[u/vcrfuneral_]

Hello,

I am not sure where to report this, or If I can even do something about it.

Last night there was a terribly bad accident and it happened right in front of us so I was the first person to dial 911.

Police eventually showed up and took care of the family in the first car, but the victim of the second car was severely injured as well. I told two different police officers who were in their vehicles blocking off traffic that there was a second victim severely injured and they didn't respond. There weren't enough ambulances. I didn't want to disturb the medical personnel or police actively involved. It took so long for someone to come over to check on the kid that the victims family had time to drive there and started freaking out and asking for someone to please go and help their sister because at this point she had been pulled into the parking lot and was seemingly going unconscious.

One officer starts screaming in her face arguing with her that she was going to get arrested for being disorderly, but it had been so long and nobody was even paying attention to her. I don't blame her for yelling for help and maybe she had so much adrenaline that she was freaking out, but can an officer get in her face, threaten to arrest her and yell at her for trying to advocate assistance for her sibling?

I gave my conact info to one of the girls as I witnessed everything and left but the police officer was still being a fucking asshole.

I'm probably in the wrong here but are they really allowed to treat us like that?

[u/G_Rex]

All I can hope is that other LEOs read this and take note: Your job is to protect and serve. You are a servant to the public. Believing you are anything above that is how incidents like this and Uvalde happen.

[u/ButtonDifferent3528 → u/G_Rex]

“Police are a servant to the public” is a misconception. Protect and serve does not mean protect and serve the community, it means protect and serve the LAW.

In other words, it is their job to uphold the law through vigilance (protect the law) and cite/detain/arrest where appropriate (serve the law).

This is why regular police officers hold no Constitutional duty to protect anyone according to Supreme Court precedent (Castle Rock vs. Gonzales)… and why situations like Uvalde happen.

[u/Squillz105 → u/ButtonDifferent3528]

THIS IS THE POINT HERE. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Police have no duty to protect the public. So many people NEED to understand this!!

[u/tn_notahick → u/Squillz105]

Additionally, it was the police themselves that pushed this case to the supreme Court. They literally lost Navy cases in the lower courts that said "yeah, you protect and serve", and they kept arguing that they didn't have a duty to protect. They argued in multiple courts.

It's not like the courts just said "no they don't"... The police themselves actually pushed until they got the SC ruling.

[u/sconquergood → u/ButtonDifferent3528]

On top of that they aren't even required to know the law.