Saturday, November 5, 2011
Can I do anything if a cop caused me doented mental trauma?
About 6 months ago, A friend of mine asked to use my checking account to deposit a check from his family because he didn't have an i.d. I had asked friends of mine to do the same thing for me when I was working and a teenager (I didn't get an i.d. until I turned 18.) Unfortunately for me the check was fraudulent something I hadn't expected my friend was into. (I know this was stupid... duh. but my husband really trusted him and we didn't think being his friends he would do something like that in OUR account) 2 cops came and questioned me. At first they thought I was an accomplice since he used my account. Eventually they put me down as a victim of check fraud and brought charges against him. But for 2 hours they believed I was an accomplice and they used a scare tactic to try and get me to confess knowledge I didn't have. I have a doented anxiety disorder which causes me severe panic attacks. I feel like I'm having a heart attack and it feels like I'm dieing. Aside from being extremely scary it's physically painful as well. My heart races so fast it feels like one continuous beat; like it's not beating at all it burns and I feel a stabbing in the left side of my chest it's intense and overwhelming. At this point I gasp and gasp for the tinniest bit of labored breath I can get and it feels like being trapped underwater. In this paticular case I was also crying because they had told me over and over I was going to jail for a felony I didn't commit. I understand why they did it it's a tactic to get you to confess something about the other guy if you did do it, but I didn't know anything to confess. This was the worst panic attack I ever had. I hyperventilated and had to breath into a bag. My head got light and floaty and my body went pins and needles like it fell asleep and I knew I was about to p out. At that point they called paramedics but later recalled them before they arrived because I was able to get some of my wind back and didn't faint. My reaction was so strong infact, that one of the officers accused me of being on speed. I asked him what that meant and his whole reasoning was no one should react like that that I may be "a little scared but nobody reacts like that, I've never seen it." Of course I wasn't on drugs (and I have my own theory that he would have been more sympathetic if I was clean cut and dressed up like I am in the office instead of my short pajamas and a baggy shirt but thats a side theory.) Anyway, Eventually they realized I didn't know anything and told me to get in touch with a detective. The detective was the opposite. He was so compionate and about finding the truth not just a bad guy. The police showed up and wanted to arrest somebody; case closed, finger someone, haul em to jail and thats it. It's over. But the detective took his time and yzed the case. He talked to witnesses and got the atm surveilance footage. He was just looking for the truth not a bad guy to put away and eventually all the charges were brought against him. It turned out he did it to alot of people he befriended in our area. Since then, my anxiety disorder has gotten more severe than it ever was before. Before it was doented as mild now it is so severe it's completely unmanagable. I no longer Know when I'm about to go into an attack. There are no triggers I can watch for. The attacks come out of nowhere now. For no reason. Before they only came if I was already scared or nervous about something. Now they just come all the time with no warning. Before I had about 3 anxiety attacks a year. Now I get them at least that many times a week. And, every time I see a police car it triggers a panic attack. Do I have any legal standing for a civil case; if so what would it be for? Can I file a complaint at his department? Will that do any good or just "get lost" ? Will they retaliate and find something to get me in trouble for whenever they see me? Will this bring my life into scrutiny? PLEEEEEEAASEE HEEEEELLLP!!!
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