By: Rachel Howeizer
I went to the Hathian Police Department in an effort to get a statement on the Hathian General Hospital assault, and while there ran into Lieutenant Calhern, I asked the Lieutenant for an interview, and she begrudgingly agreed. While interviewing Calhern I found her attitude to be one that was under a lot of stress, and while rough around the edges she came across as honest. Honesty is something I can respect, and so we continued.
Interview Begins
23/10/24 – Hathian Police Department – Interview With Lieutenant Lizette Calhern
Lizette Calhern: “But, in truth, you people are. Otherwise I may have seen the more of what was happening in that room. You may have witnessed the sexual advance made by LeMarchand when I confronted him on his failure to keep patients safe in that shitty excuse of a hospital. Secondly, you may have witnessed that blond dingbat yelling that my Captain needed to die. The very reason I and my officers showed up to begin with after being told there was about to be another attempt on his life.”
Rachel Howeizer: “You’re saying that Simon LeMarchand made sexual advances towards you, and that another staff member was screaming for your captain’s death? Alright uh… Let’s see… What about the fellow you had arrested early on, how was he involved?”
LC: “Seriously? You were there the whole time, right? We saw you, and yet you missed those finer points?! Yes, he did, and that was after telling me directly in my face that my officers were never going to be safe there from his staff members. I can’t even count the many times I have been called there due to the fact my injured officers were being attacked while in their hospital beds recovering from horrible injuries. So called doctors injecting them with poisons, delivering to them tainted food, trying to give MRIs to an officer who clearly has metal on his body after sustaining horrendous injuries that cost him an arm and an eye. What the ever living fuck? Faking test orders to get one of mine out of our sight so that officer could be kidnapped right out from under our noses so they could be tortured? No one wants to hear about the reasons we are so angry over the administration in that hell hole. The man we detained for questioning was the man who was delivering a package of ice cream for Captain Heckler. We wanted to know who sent that package and why. Nothing more. Given officers have been poisoned more than once in that hospital, don’t you think it wise for us to inspect such a package….delivered by someone we don’t know? Only a fool trusts a stranger.”
RH: “I didn’t hear him say those things, no, then again it was rather chaotic, and I was being harassed by another officer… So, you do not think any actions on the HPD’s part were rash in any way? As for the one delivering ice cream being arrested, is being a delivery man a crime worth of being taken to jail for? Is he still in jail? And if so why?”
LC: “Of course you didn’t hear that part. Nor did you witness that dumbass blond woman screaming my Captain needed to die while running to the elevator to get to him and try to kill him! My officer went after her to keep her from murdering him, and they were then attacked by multiple staff members at the hospital to try and take him down so the female staff could kill Captain Heckler! No, its not a crime to be a delivery man, but I told him I wanted to talk to him. He then tried to run from questioning which also raised suspicions that he was up to no good. The man was simply detained for questioning. A valid reason, I might add, and he was not officially arrested. We were doing our jobs to ensure the life of our Captain wasn’t placed in jeopardy, and we were rightfully detaining a man who delivered a suspicious package. Now, even you have to admit, we were well within the laws to do just what we did.”
RH: “I am not here to argue with you Lieutenant I just want what happened straight from your mouth, I’m asking questions that you can answer, I’ll publish it and let the citizens decide how they feel about it. I have no grievances with the police. So you were under the impression that this staff member wanted to kill your Captain, and if that is true then you most definitely did have reason to detain… Now the conflict that erupted from this I understand two pregnant women were involved on the staff side, one of them knocked out by a punch to the head by one officer, and another so injured she had to be put into critical care? Do you feel your officers were acting within their use of force or do you feel it was a bit excessive?”
LC: “Let me ask you a question here. What pregnant woman would place herself and her unborn child deliberately in danger? Its the Darwin award for those who are that fuckin stupid in thinking their condition negates their own responsibility for their actions. They had a choice to stay out of the conflict or to engage. They never would have been touched if they had been wise enough to protect themselves and their unborns. You don’t get a pass for attacking police officers doing their duties and then you can cry about being injured because you were an imbecile. I myself even kept out of the line of fire until my son was born recently. If you care anything about a baby, you protect it. My officers never would have touched those women had they stayed out of it.”
RH: “Of course Lieutenant Calhern. I think that thoroughly answers that question. Lieutenant Calhern if you had anything you wanted to say to the public currently to assuage their concerns over this incidents would you be willing to say it on record now? And if so what do you want to say?”
LC: “It has always been this way. The ones to yell the loudest about police brutality are the very ones who are terrorizing the innocent people in this city, and yet we continue to do our best to protect those who desperately need that protection. How many times we have been attacked, I can’t even count, and yet we still run toward the line of fire while others run away. A pregnant woman was buried alive during a strike we were holding due to the fact we have a shit mayor who does fuck all for this city. I got wind of this horrific act and a few of us, in spite of the fact we knew we could be killed for coming out to save that woman, we did it anyway and saved her life as well as her unborn child. A couple of years ago, a mad man was littering businesses with Christmas packages…..most of which contained bombs. WE placed ourselves in danger to keep people safe and many of us were repeatedly blown off our feet when those bombs went off. One package contained 8 sick puppies. I adopted those puppies and gave them a good home. There are countless stories just like these I could tell you, but no one cares to hear them. They just label us monsters for holding them accountable for their own horrible actions against humanity. Without us here to try and save decent people from those animals, what then? The depraved take over the city?”
RH: “That’s quite the statement Lieutenant Calhern, though I will say that because someone does good will not necessarily outweigh the bad they later do. Would you write it off if gang member who had killed one of your police officers, had also saved another’s life?”
LC: “Like the man who ran over my officer with an ambulance right before my own eyes? The very ambulance that was called to save his life after he’d been stabbed? A man who we actually trusted to do his job? I don’t hold FDH accountable for the actions of that one man who betrayed not only us, but his own people. Now, there’s another tidbit for you ma’am. My officers do not go out and attempt to murder people for the hell of it. If something unfortunate does happen its in the heat of a battle where we have been attacked. I don’t call self defense, murder. No sane person would.”
RH: “Of course Lieutenant it wasn’t meant to be an insult or an attack, simply a question.”
In closing I will say that while I do not agree with all of Lieutenant Lizette Calhern’s claims, I do believe that she believes them to be true, and was earnest in her responses, if abrasive, and crude. The HPD felt like they were acting in their best interest in this case, but is it the Police Department’s job to act in their own interest, they are Public Servants after all and their job is to serve the Public. That is up to you dear readers to decide.
