Love Brutality

Octavia is a 30 year old nurse and a single mother of two and who has been dating Greg a 37 year old police officer captain and father of one.  The couple has been dating for a couple of years and everything was perfect and fine. Greg use to show up to Octavia job to take her to lunch and sometime he’ll bring her lunch. Greg would send her roses  once or twice a month.  The couple was so in love that Octavia decided to move in with Greg. Well that was  up until a couple of months ago when Greg got demoted due to state budget cuts and he received a summons from his child mother to increase his child support. To make matters worse, Greg decided to  take Octavia out to a fine dining restaurant to clear his mind of all the financial stress but once they returned to the parking lot the repo man was towing his car.   While the car was being towed away Octavia started to laugh and Greg told her to stop laughing because he was humiliated but Octavia refused to and Greg walked up to Octavia and slapped her.  After he slapped her he explained to her that aint nothing funny about his car being towed, and aint nothing funny about being demoted, and aint nothing funny about an increase of his child support.  Octavia took off running to call the police on Greg and Greg yelled at her as she ran, “Where you going to go?! I’m the police! I’m the law!” Once the police arrived on the scene they asked Octavia what she did to make Officer Greg slap her.  Octavia then  cried and said,” Does it matter?” Tthe police officers said it does matter. Therefore, they got in their car and drove off.  The couple went home in sperate cars.  Octavia caught a cab and Greg decided to walk home and to stop by the liquir store to buy some liquor.  Once Greg drunkenly walked in the house and he walked up to Octavia who was their room packing her bags and he said, “Where in the hell do you think you’re going?!  Woman do you hear me talking to you?! Silly bitch! Do you hear me talking to you?!” Octavia refuse to respond and continue to pack.  Greg then said,”ok.” He walked out of their room and walked into another room to retrieve something. Octavia thought he was going to get some kind of weapon so she ran and locked herself in their bathroom. Once Greg returns he knocked on the bathroom door and yelled to Octavia to open the door and she refuse too. Then he slipped a small gray box under the door and told her to pick up the box. Octavia nervously picked up the box and open it and she saw a half karat diamond ring and started to cry and said she was so sorry and then she decided to open the door. Once she opened the door Greg grabbed her by the neck and had a gun pointed directly at her face and said, “If you ever in your life run from me woman I’ll kill you!”  At that very moment Octavia life was before her eyes and she thought about her children and she cried as and told Greg that she will never leave him and she apologize.

Fast forward a couple of weeks later Octavia attempt to take out a restraining order against Greg but one of the office custodians called Greg about and Greg march in the court office and all the workers walked away and he slapped the shit out of Octavia and told her to get the hell out of their and go home.  Blood fell from Octavia mouth onto the restraining order paper and she  shocked that all the clerks left their cubical and someone called to tell Greg that she was filling a restraining order. Greg grabbed Octavia by the neck and said, “I told you I am the law and there’s nowhere you can go where I don’t have friend and dammit woman, I know every officer, every sheriff, and every judge is this city and they all owe me a favor and they all are my friends.  You see we all wear the blue shield.  Now clean up your face and take your sorry broke ass home.” Octavia took off running out the court office while crying and other officers and bystanders looked at her with confusion. Now Octavia wants to know what can she do or who can she turn to because she is experiencing love/police brutality?