Police Brutality!

[Zapp]

Matt Myers eases himself into his chair after a long absence. Luckily, the paperwork had been routed elsewhere so there was no immense stack of papers awaiting him. Of course, it didn't take long for the old pipes to start churning and for the papers to start falling. First thing to cross his desk was a transcript of this communication.

"FRED!" he snaps to his secretary, who is slow to bound to attention. He had grown soft in his time off the job. "FRED GIT YER ARSE INTO GEAR!"

That got his attention, and he leaped to the desk. "Yessir?"

"Take a letter," he says, leveraging himself up and pacing all the while. "Yessir." Fred jumps to the small alcove made for such occasions and starts the computer, typing as the Chief speaks:

"Dear idiot. No wait, scratch that. Dear citizen,

Such slanderous libel I have never before seen in my life. A good officer of the law points out that one of your running lights was broken, and you take offense? Do you know why ships have running lights? For safety. So of course we have laws that say you have to have all your ships lights in working order, and of course we're going to fine you for having a broken one. What disgusts me is that you describe that as police brutality. Police brutality is when excessive physical force against people to force them into submission with no lawful reason.

What I see in those transmissions is an Officer fulfilling his duty. You can take that 'proof' and shove it where the sun don't shine.

Sincerely, the Chief."

Matt Myers nodded to himself, then said, "That sounds good. Send it."

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