Player Report
Your Byond ID? RIPEPLUMSTOEAT
Date of Incident May 14, 2020
Your Character Name? Arthur Pershing
Accused Byond Key(if known): Unknown
Accused Character Name Sanler Gutts / Terrell Laurenzi
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) 2:00 PM
What rule(s) were broken: Rule 3, Rule 15
Description of the incident: For context, the map that was active during the incident was prison station. One of the special survivor roles that spawns on prison station is the prisoner. Me and another survivor, Tony Springer, both spawned in as prisoners. We managed to survive the aliens and we both went up to the Alameyer for processing etc. When we arrived on the ship we met the survivor synth Matthaus, who wore a "working joe" uniform (this is important for later). All three of us were escorted to brig by the MPs. There was a mild disagreement over whether or not me and Springer should be brigged for having the prisoner role. The CMP sent a fax and we were escorted to CIC to get jobs. We were then intercepted by the XO Connor Anderson. Anderson claimed that the crashed ship was full of CLF and one of us was the CLF vice president. All three of us were brought to brig, (with no charges) and we had to wait while the MPs interrogated the synth. After about 30 lines of dialogue where the MPs interogated the synth, I said
Arthur Pershing asks, "Alright! My patient is running thin, when are you releasing me?"
The CMP responded with
LCDR Terrell Laurenzi says, "Arthur. If you decided to do something, We will hold you here indefinatley"
I protested that they were already holding me without any signs of a release, which prompted the CMP to claim that us prisoners were POWs. I'm not sure where he got this claim, but it is flatly false.
I had asked to leave several times at this point, but the CMP ordered Gutts to not let us leave, because Springer had RPd he was arrested for robbery and I said for murder. We protested this (and I checked with a mod on discord, MPs should NOT arrest the prisoner survivor role for crimes committed outside of the Alameyer). He attempted to strip me, I moved away because I believed that I was not eligible for arrest. I was promptly hit with a taser beam. The only action I took against Gutts was a single punch given after being tased, which in my opinion is a reasonable reaction to be tased without warning. I only moved around, attempted to stop from being stripped, but I was promptly hit with a stunbaton.
Me and Springer were put into cells without timers. Meanwhile, the survivor synth was tased and hit with a baton, even though he had not hit a MP nor was he showing signs that he was going to strike a MP.
In my opinion, the MPs failed to 1) correctly interpret marine law, 2) follow up on misunderstandings in marine law by ahelping, 3) properly escalate a conflict. I will add that I believe that both the MP and the CMP broke military law, specifically "Illegal Confinement". By holding us in the brig without charges during a ridiculous interrogation that none of us consented to the clause stating "confining people in cells without charging them for a crime".
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): I copied and pasted some of the interactions with the MPs.
How you would punish the accused: A minor note for the MP and the CMP regarding improper escalation.