Isaiah.

Isaiah was a person who said he valued the complaint system. He said it potentially could save lives. But when Isaiah had an opportunity to file a complaint of his own last summer after police searched him at the store, he declined. He cited a worse experience with the CPD from when he was fifteen years old.

Isaiah had been harassed by some CPD officers and wanted to file a complaint against them. And he would’ve, he said, if the police hadn’t called his mom on the phone and threatened to kill him. Isaiah’s mother, terrified, wouldn’t let her son go forward with the complaint. After that, he learned to brush it off when the police treated him badly.