There is great need for reform and more emphasis on justice vs punishment. I’m so sorry they are not dropping charges though you did your part.

I think stop, is different from grounding and more cognition than mindfulness. I don’t remember it too much though I did use it decades ago. It was tricky because telling myself to stop made me think more on it. It’s like one of those trick images, face or vase. It was more helpful for me to try and focus on both rather than tell myself it was not one or the other. I don’t know if that makes sense. But seeing the whole and a more eastern focus helped me. I’m forever grateful that my episodes with the police were trips to the hospital instead of jail, they so easily could have gone either way.

Hugs, lady shadow we are with you.