“Six hours in a holding room. They called it a ‘safety procedure.”
 
That’s how Marcus described it in his Reddit post. But before that, he said, it started with pain—and not the emotional kind.

He’d been shoved to the ground outside a corner store, toy still in his hand. One officer pinned him face-down, and according to Marcus, another officer dropped his full weight on Marcus’ left leg. At first, he thought it was just a sprain from the awkward position. But the pain didn’t stop.

Turns out, it was a displaced fracture—a broken leg, bones out of alignment. No ambulance. No real first aid. An officer handed him a cold pack, but they still cuffed him and drove him straight to the precinct.
 

“They kept saying it was protocol,” he wrote.

“I couldn’t even go to the bathroom for the first three hours.”
 

He sat in a holding room for six hours. No phone call. No medical attention until release.
 

When he finally got to the ER, he was told he’d need surgery.