Cracked door, trails of blood splattered throughout the house. The floorboards creak and creak as warning of an invader, but not enough warning. Heartbeats louder than moans of pain, more blood but in puddles. That's when I saw my aunt with the door half broken lying on her beaten body where she was trying to get shelter from her ex boyfriend. She was beaten with a metal pipe. This was the first time I met her personally, as she said she was being attacked by her husband and all she had was her iPod to send a message on Facebook that she needed help. She lived right next door to me and I remember sprinting as fast as I could. Today I realized that the government is cruel and corrupted by the blind, deaf and dumb. The mutes. When the police arrived (I had called them before going there), they arrested my bloody and beaten aunt just as they approached me. I was so angry I felt like I was going to be the next one to be locked up. The ex-boyfriend had scratches and claimed the house belonged to him and that she had invaded it. He was almost twice her size and didn't even have the keys to the house. All the doors were broken down, all his appliances, like televisions and expensive equipment, demolished. Thirty-two percent of women imprisoned for self-defense crimes involved an ex-boyfriend or ex-husband. It scared me when I had to see them drag her away. barely conscious. How could the police be so stupid to believe him? Did he pay them? Why didn't they take him too? Obviously, he had attacked her as well. She was able to tell her story and he was locked up for two weeks for trespassing. Two weeks later, he drove her to work and destroyed her brand new Subaru that she had saved up to buy. No, middle of paper... rude girl there, she could be nice, and she wasn't even my friend. But when she fought and stood there, taking every blow, without even touching the other person, I saw her neck almost break, her body stomping and kicking. However, she was punished like the other girl because of the zero tolerance policy implemented in 1994. Today, not only does our law take away our self-defense, but even our schools, which are supposed to teach us good and evil and being our parental figures, while our parents earn their living, shut us down. It's an inexpensive way for school absentees to get off work. It also makes schools look bad if they get all these student reports because of fighting, so they sweep it under the rug. Now, because no one wants to be suspended for anything, we fight after school. But even then the school can suspend you.