A cop and the Attorney General basically told me to know my place Indiana, LOL.
A post about the AG reminded me of my trip to Indiana, so here's my story. :p
I was heading to Southern Indiana. My first stop in Indiana was at a Subway. The moment I entered every employee and customer went silent. The employee avoided eye contact and silently handed me my sandwich. The store stayed dead quiet until I left. I figured I had just stumbled into something quirky — the kind of thing you only see in YouTube videos.
…Until I got into a genuinely hostile incident a few days later.
I was filing a complaint about the motel staff’s remarks, resulting in an altercation that turned violent. The staff punched and slammed me to the ground. Despite violently holding me down they confidently called 911, accusing me of battery and trespassing, and told me I may be going to jail.
The responding officer handcuffed me and began defending the staff. He lectured me that as a soon-to-be American, I should have known the First Amendment protected their remarks and that filing a business complaint in Indiana required an attorney. After the hour-long interrogation while demanding that I change my testimony to match only what he asked, he eventually locked me in the patrol car for jail transport, as the staff predicted.
The police eventually had to let me go as staff-provided CCTV and testimony they solely relied on only confirmed who the true aggressor was. However, when I subsequently raised the staff's criminal conduct, the officer told me to stop and leave immediately or go to jail.
NGL, I wrote this strictly from my POV. Given the government actors involved, this was easily my strangest encounter. I guess I should have known my place in Indiana and will never return, lol.
Oh, I also learned that contacting the IN AG as a private citizen is a waste of time. They exist solely to protect and serve the state... at least according to their response.
