Neither offender acknowledged my humanity

I was riding my bike to work, and a driver in a car ran a stop sign to T-Bone me then drive away, leaving me in the street. Thankfully, while I was out, a passerby stopped to call an ambulance. The police also came by, though I did not speak with them. It was only after inquiring repeatedly with the police station that a receptionist showed me the report the officer wrote, which indicates that he found the person who hit me and gave him a ticket for running a stop sign, but not for hitting me or driving away. The report notably records that the driver made contact with me and my bike but that I was not seriously injured and walked away.

This could not be further from the truth and is simply negligent to report, as there was no way for the officer to have properly ascertained this information because I was being carted off in an ambulance where I could have been suffering from internal bleeding, to his ignorance. I ended up only sustaining damage to two of the major ligaments in one of my knees, with tibial fractures, but walking away would have been impossible.

It's possible that these violations (either by the driver or the officer) were not race-related. It's possible that the harm they caused me was due solely to negligence and fear. However, it must be stated that the political makeup of the city presents a strong case that neither offender acknowledged my humanity in a meaningful way, a statement further corroborated by their actions. It cannot be understated that harm sustained by Asian-Americans in cases where offenders go without consequence are inseparable from the perception of Asians as helpless and vulnerable victims with no means or drive to defend themselves.