Officers could use a lesson in courtesy

[WNYresident]

Full Story

Officers could use a lesson in courtesy

1/6/2004

I recently went to the Dulski Federal Building in Buffalo. I had to bring some paperwork to the Social Security office because I am disabled. When I entered, I told the police officers that I have metal in my body that will probably beep when I go through the metal detector. Laughing, the police officer checked me thoroughly with his wand. Then he told me to bend down and pick up my pant legs.
"I can't bend," I said to him. He demanded that I get down and pick up my pant legs. "I can't bend down, at all." There was a big plywood box by the detector, so I asked if I could sit on it to pull my pant legs up. "You can go now," he grunted.

Due to the fact that I'm 98 pounds and have herniated lower disks and a titanium plate in my neck, the doors are very heavy for me to open. They are not handicapped-accessible. The officer looked over and saw me struggling to open it.

"I need help to open the door," I said. He groaned, but came over to assist me. He opened the door and said, "See how easy that was," letting the door close on me as he and his fellow police officers laughed at me. A man in front of me opened the other door for me and I walked out behind him. I yelled back to the officer, "Yes, it's very nice to have the strength to open the door, and thanks for making me feel stupid because I couldn't."

No person should be treated in such a rude manner. If this is what we call "good security," then we are all in trouble.

PEGGY VOGELBACHER
Buffalo

[sbGUY27]

People should also realise that the police officers are not door men they are exactly what she called them security. ANd sence when do BPD patrol the federal building? I went to school just a block over and always saw Federaly employed security guards.
She must have been blind too.