This video shows bodycam footage of some guy who called the police because, allegedly, someone had poked his son with his hand. When security camera footage was reviewed by the cops, it turns out that the man was just mistaken, and that person had never touched the boy in any way, so it's all just a big nothingburger.
What's peculiar about this is how the man talks to the cops. This reveals a particular type of personality that many people have probably encountered (if they aren't like that themselves). I myself have encountered this kind of person a few times.
And that's the type of personality that when he gets upset about something, he gets a kind of obsession about it, and just feels the compulsive need to keep ranting about it over and over and over, well beyond what's reasonable, well beyond having made his opinions clear already, for no discernible reason or goal.
Indeed, in the bodycam footage the guy just goes on and on and on about the incident, saying the same things over and over, literally like a dozen times. He says "touch" and "put hands on" something like twenty times, over and over. He repeats that he will "beat up the guy" and "doesn't care about going to jail" over and over, at least a half dozen times during the long rant. He says that he "didn't realize" what had happened at the moment a dozen times. Again, and again, and again, and again. He just repeats the same things over and over. This even though the cop has acknowledged all of it a dozen times already.
When the cops interview the manager of the restaurant, it becomes clear that the guy had ranted to the poor waiters in a similar manner, given how detailed of a description of the rant the manager gives. One can only imagine how many times he had repeated the same things to them, even though there was absolutely nothing that the poor waiters could do about it. I would guess that only the arrival of the cops saved the waiters from further ranting.
Later (I think the next day) he had clearly ruminated over it and was incapable of getting over it, and called the sheriff's office and subjected the cop on the other end of the line to the exact same rant for a whopping 40 minutes (part of the call is included in the video I linked above). In that call he, once again, just repeats those same things again and again, for 40 minutes.
And mind you, this was after he was told about the security camera footage. But obviously he didn't believe it nor wanted to accept it.
He just couldn't get over it and just kept ranting about it. I'm not particularly sympathetic towards American cops, but I really pity the cop on the other side of the line who had to endure 40 minutes of that constantly repeating ranting, having to listen to the same things repeated endlessly.
I wouldn't be surprised if he had continued his rants for literally hours at home. If there's any trauma that happened to the son over the incident, it was certainly caused by his father ranting about it for hours on end.
Sometimes some people are just like this. When they get really upset about something, they just keep repeating their grievances again and again, well beyond what's reasonable, even in the face of agreement by the people they are talking to. It's like he's seeking some kind of validation... from people who have already validated him and agreed with him a dozen times already, and there's nothing new he's saying.
I vividly remember witnessing this kind of personality a few times during my life, and in some cases how others just started telling the guy that yes, he already has said it like a dozen times already, there's no use in keeping repeating it so many times, they know already, and there's nothing they can do about it. Essentially telling him to shut up already, there's no use in keeping repeating the same things, and it's getting annoying.
I wonder if there's some kind of name for this kind of personality/behavior in psychology.
The funny thing is that the man in the video claims that he's a former federal police officer. That I believe. He seems like the exact type of personality that American law enforcement looks for. Someone obsessed with beating up people for slights towards him, real or perceived. Perfect American cop material.
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