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Originally Posted by evilwizard
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I know it's a made up story, but the article linked really isn't surprising for that area... Galax and Bristol are fucked up areas, I'd assume Marion/Atkins is as well but I've only ever driven through.
Do yourself a favor and get the fuck out of that part of Virginia.
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Half of my co-workers were from my last job were from Galax BTW. Thought it was crazy they would drive all the way to Marion for such a shitty job with no benefits. I've only been there once or twice when I was a kid. Back in that era, pet stores were a thing, and Galax had the best fish store that was semi-local. Was a real treat to go look at all the exotic fish and stuff when you're a 5 year old kid.
I went to Virginia Highlands Community College, which is like 10 minutes from Bristol, so I was in out and out of that area a lot during my college years. My mom lived in Bristol briefly when I was a kid, so I would spend summers there and stuff.
I went to the stateline bar in Bristol right after I got out of the ARMY, ended up getting tasered in the back and arrested for walking outside of a bar drunk, despite having a completely sober designated driver. Unlike Virginia where a public intox was like a $60 fine, they made me post bail, do 100 hours of community service, and pay thousands in fines and legal fees. Fuck Bristol TN. I've never gone back there. My family was so mad over that entire fiasco that they won't even drive through that state anymore.
I'm not kidding when this happened, complete strangers were running up and screaming at the cops to stop because they didn't understand why that was happening to me. The judge was a complete asshole too, I remember being in a jail cell for days (again, a misdemeanor public intox) and when I went before a judge to get bond, he cursed at me and told me he's sick and tired of people from Virginia coming down here and ruining his state (it's the stateline bar, I literally thought I was still on the Virginia side, but apparently not), and that he would not grant me a lawyer since I had money to run around drinking, then I could afford a lawyer, yadda, yadda, yadda, just completely berating me, and I remember being really confused because I literally hadn't done anything or even really spoke and was super confused by what was happening.
Fortunately I had a lot of money saved up since I just got back from my last deployment, and my parents backed me, and I was able to hire a really good lawyer, and showed up in the court room in a 3 piece versace suit that I had custom tailored while stationed in Italy, and it was insane how drastically different the judge treated me when he perceived me to be wealthy. Suddenly it was like he was my best friend.
But because of that night, like to this day, it annoys me when people say white men are never victims of police brutality. And it's also why despite being against BLM, I usually side with BLM more often than not because 85% of cops are assholes.