Ok I grew up in Chattanooga Tennessee area and have been going to the Riverbend Festival since I was a kid. In fact it was something that had happened at Riverbend the was in part why I became Dark Ghost and it was the final push I needed you might say. A few years I had taken my Grandma so watch the Country singer that was preforming that night and she can could not walk a lot so once we found a place to set up our chairs she would stay there and I would run to get her drinks and food while we were there. It was already dark and the show on the Coca-Cola stage had not been going long and my Grandma asked me to go get her a diet-coke. I went to this one concession stand thank I knew had bottled cokes. It was a long line and after I was there maybe 20 to 40 minutes there was only two or three people in line ahead of me ant in the back of the line I hear I girls voice yelling "stop" don't touch me" I look back and I see this young girl 14 maybe 16 years of age and the older drunk guy in his mid to late 20s groping her. I look around and I see this cop walking over and she saw them too cause she tried to call them over but the cop just kept walking. At this point I am next in line only one person ahead of me so I look back there and tell the girl that she can in front of me which she did. The drunk guy the get mad at me saying thing I will not put in this blog but mostly meaning why am I trying to keep him from getting lucky? I told him that anyone could see the girl is under age so unless he would like to be swimming in the Tennessee River that he best just shut up. Then that cop the had walked by starts on me for making a threat to the drunk guy I looked at the cop and told him why I said what I had and that I saw the girl trying to get him to help and him just walking by and how I now have his name and badge number and that his boss will be hearing about this. I got my Grandma's coke and then walked the girl back to her mom. I told her mom what happened and gave her the cops information. In the years since then I kept going to Riverbend and I saw that the problems kept getting worse. One year I was there a man walked in to one of the porta-potties that were there and a group of guys tried to push it down the hill and in to the river.
This year I went to Riverbend again after hearing about the brawl the happened on just the third night of the festival. Now the news media reported that the Friends of the festival the group that holds the Riverbend Festival had brought in a privet security company to help the police this year. I was there on the last night and I was not all that impressed with the security was I was able to get past it with a stun gun, mace, a baton, a pocket knife, my mask, and other parts of my gear. Also while I was there I saw that the police still seem to have no regard for the people attending Riverbend. I saw two guys in cuff being taking take out be the police the fist time the cops run over this one girl. I could not got the cops name or badge number else I myself would have reported him that girl was almost trampled had I not gotten her out of the way. Since I saw how thing were on inside the festival I started walk patrolling the outside and I only saw one cop out there and there were a lot of people not attending Riverbend that were there to see the fireworks at the end of the night. Having not seen but the one cop cover the outside of the festival I thought it best the I stay to patrolling outside as well. The only trouble I came across was a drunk guy that acted like he was looking for a fight with an older gentleman after a cigarette he seemed to claim down.
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