Hope that if you ever have to call 911, that it doesn’t go like this:
“Can you please send someone now!,” said Erica Turner, the victim.
There is no mistaking the urgency in Erica Turner’s voice.
“I have a restraining order. The guy’s at my door. He’s knocking on my door threatening to kill me. Can you please? He got a gun. Can you please hurry up and send somebody? We called here five times already. He’s in my hallway knocking on my door, Please!” said Turner.
It was one of almost a dozen 911 calls she and three of her relatives made to the Irvington police department on April 4th.
But with a raging ex-boyfriend at her door at 49 Maple Avenue, Erica’s initial pleas for help went unanswered.
“I understand that. But right now we really really do not have nobody. And I been trying my best to get a cop car to ya’ll, and we really do not have nobody,” said 911 police aid.
The kids they’ve got answering the phones today–where’s their training? We really do not have anybody. Remember that double negative thing?
Oh yeah, and if someone is being threatened by an armed ex-boyfriend, it’s probably a good idea to find an extra policeman somewhere and check it out.