In Chapter 2, Bryon and Mark are visiting their mother in the hospital, and she tells them to talk to the boy in next room because he seems lonely. Mark agrees to walk over and visit with the boy while Bryon heads down to the snack bar to grab a hamburger. When Bryon sits down at the snack bar, he thinks about all the food he wishes he could order. Bryon says that he can eat a ton of food and also mentions that that he is five-ten and still growing. He then says that he should have gone out for football but wouldn't have lasted long on the team because he could never handle authority. Bryon's issues with authority stem from a negative experience he had with the police when he was younger. When Bryon was thirteen years old, two cops found him walking around the street drunk and...
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picked him up. They drove Bryon to a hill on the other side of town, slapped him around, and left him there alone. Bryon mentions that he never forgot that experience, and it ruined his respect for police officers. Bryon says that ever since he was beaten, he made it a point to mouth off to cops and disrespect them.
In That Was Then, This Is Now, why did Bryon dislike the police?
While Bryon and Mark are visiting their mother at the hospital, Bryon heads down to the snack bar to avoid talking to the young boy laying in the next room. As Bryon reads over the menu, he mentions how much food he could eat. He comments on his good build for being only sixteen and says that he should have gone out for football. Bryon then mentions that he couldn't have put up with the coach yelling at him because he has problems with authority. He thinks his problems with authority stem from the time when he was thirteen, and two cops picked him up for wandering drunk in the streets. Bryon says that they drove him out to a hill on the other side of the city, slapped him around, and left him there. Bryon mentions that he never forgot it and that the negative experience ruined any respect he's ever had for police officers. Even since he was slapped around, he's made it a point to mouth off to cops.