On June 30, my youngest child was hit by an SUV while sitting in a shopping cart in the parking lot at Walmart.
It wasn’t a big hit — my child didn’t go flying across the parking lot — but it shook up my daughter and wife.
To their suprise, the owners of the SUV got out of their vehicle and started griping at my wife for having the cart in their way while she was unloading groceries into the back of her car. They didn’t say they were sorry or anything of that sort.
I called the police when my wife told me of the incident. I expected the police to file some sort of report. I gave them the license plate number of the SUV.
Officer Roush came to our home and talked with me about the accident. My four-year-old son was in our presence.
Officer Roush told me there was nothing the police could do about the incident. I told him that wasn’t right, and that if the police couldn’t pursue the matter, then maybe I should have words with these people. Officer Roush told me not to be “stupid.”
I asked Officer Roush not to use that word in front of my son because I was trying to break him of calling people stupid.
Officer Roush then repeatedly said the word stupid, and then said he was certain I had used worse words in front of my son.
This instance is why I have lost all faith in the Iola Police Department.
Jason Cole,
Iola, Kan.
