Policing Gays
Metro cops use confidential informants to target gay chat rooms and lure homosexual men into trading and selling drugs.Officer Joel David Goodwin opened the door when Steve knocked. There were at least three other officers present, he remembers. Goodwin didn't match his date's photo, so Steve initially figured he knocked on the wrong door. In his affidavit, Goodwin writes that he identified himself as a police officer and told the defendant to stop. Steve recalls hearing the words "Metro Police," but nothing else. He says that when he saw the officer's badge, "it looked cheap to me." Because of Goodwin's shaved head and the boyish features of the other plain-clothed officers, Steve feared he had become the target of a hateful prank. So he quietly but quickly backed up.
"Everything to me looked like this was just a bunch of good ol' boys partying on a Friday night," he says. "Nothing from their behavior led me to believe otherwise."
Steve took a step or two away from the door, but Goodwin snatched him by the wrist. He twisted away, but the other officers grabbed him. Steve wouldn't submit. He kept trying to pull away, but he remembers being kicked and brought to the grass on the front yard. The men grabbed and punched him, but he still tried to break free. Then Steve recalls a sharp, devastating blow to his back that felt like someone unloaded their handgun. "Now I know what it's like to be shot," he remembers thinking.
In fact, the police later admitted that Sergeant Steve Brady, a 17-year veteran of the force, fired his Taser gun, delivering 50,000 electric volts into Steve's back. Meanwhile, he was being kicked. Remarkably, Steve tried to get to his feet. In his mind, he was fighting for his life. Then Brady shot him a second time with the Taser. The officers ordered him to put his hands behind his back, but he couldn't. His body was flopping like a fish out of water; every muscle was convulsing, it seemed to him at the time. The officers ridiculed him. "Does that tickle?" one of the officers asked, as the others laughed uproariously.
I think those cops might be better off (and maybe avoid some nasty civil-rights lawsuits) if they could learn to deal with their suppressed desires up-front and hang out in S&M chatrooms in their off-time as civilians. Of course, then they'd have to admit to themselves how much of a "charge" they get out of roughing other men up, which would make them gay - "tops", but still gay.
But they're probably too ugly and out-of-shape to get dates and have to hide behind the phony pic of their CI lure (Confidential Informant) in order to be able to actually score a decent-looking guy for their brand of fun and games.
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