Police stopped and searched my autistic son

Hello, I am in desperate need of advice. My son was stopped and searched by the police (he got scared and ran), and then was pepper-sprayed and put in a cell. Obviously, he has not done anything - he just ran... He's traumatised and suffering from flashbacks. The police now want him to attend an interview - he refuses to go and it will only retraumatise him. I emailed our GP to get a letter but apparently I also need a psychiatrist to write a letter. But he won't see anyone and we do not have a psychiatrist since he left school three years ago anyway. Does anyone have any advice? It's urgent please!

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  • If you get desperate, there is a whole bunch of misguided people who believe that holding overweening authority to account, is every sovereign mans duty. Try FMOTL.com and see if their copius resources as to your theoretical rights and remedies under law are useful. 

    IF however your lad was running away from a sense of guilt, because he believed he was committing a "crime" I am afraid he was playing the game, and that's the sort of thing that happens when you play games with the police. Unfortunately I have found myself to be an actual criminal for some 42 years now due to my use of cannabis to alleviate my symptoms and for relaxation.It's a victimless crime, it places me at the mercy of any policeman who finds my stuff, but much worse societally speaking is how it puts young people instantly in contact with the "underworld", at least until they get a "proper" dealer who looks after them. I am sure that some of our policemen hereabouts have some really hoary stories about drug busts, and the criminal element who run big enterprises to make big money, but I have seen so many otherwise normal  law abiding (and dare I say overall decent) human beings have their careers, reputations and in some cases lives ruined simply though smoking a spliff in the wrong place and the wrong time. 

    One day I'll tell the story of Phillip Alcorn, (he's dead now) and his treatment by the police. A more harmless and kind soul could be found but you'd have to go and look hard. The police were a major component in his demise... Looking back I suspect he may have in truth been a fellow Autist, he certainly had the relationship and communications difficulties, but he also had diabetes and developed an alcohol habit that further debilitated him. But what broke him (and he spoke of it years afterwards) was that day we got stopped on our bikes by the nasty policemen..

    The only way to deal with the police, is to commit no infractions that you are not willing to confess immediately to.

    Practically, that means you don't have to run away or fear them. In the long term it opens up a whole vista of taking back your power, and means you can tell the truth on forums like this, without fear. Most importantly, living a clean life, and avoiding dishonest or antisocial practices keeps you out of their clutches as much as possible. 

    For those of you who really do not like the way the police currently work, and have found some police officers personally unpleasant and unhelpful in the flesh need to remember there are also some poor buggers stuck in that system who ARE decent minded people, doing a damn fine job (and probably being passed over for promotion for not being a "best fit" for their babylon system!) who deserves nothing but respect. Or at least no aggravation from us the disappointed taxpayers.

    The public ae fast catching on to the idea that having their (and it IS theirs, they pay for it) police force run by a bunch of people who it is widely known now to be largely members of an honest to god "secret society" where they are bound by oaths and agreements (that supercede their police duties!) is perhaps not entirely in the PUBLIC INTEREST, and despite the vigourous attempts to discredit and marginalise those who publish such information as "fake news" the truth about the quality of our leadership is starting to become mainstream.

    Currently the police force's modus operandi  faces trial by public opinion (even on Youtube!) So I guess we only really have to keep telling the truth and wait for the change to happen, when the public en masse spits out the propaganda dummy, and demands a police force that serves THEM for a change.

  • I have tried everything possible. The police have postponed the interview now but require a series of reports (GP, psychiatrist) to let me attend instead of him. But we no longer have a psychiatrist since he left school and the private ones are expensive! GP has not responded so far and would not speak to me on the phone so I am trying to find out what else can be done...