All
American Girl vs Injustice
Chapter
11:
I’ve
been away for a few days for a mental health break. Some of the things I’ve seen posted have just
brought me down. I’m trying to wrap my head around the thought that this is an “either
or” world. It isn’t. This is an inclusive world and we have to
start acting that way. It’s not us vs.
them, it’s us vs. us. Seriously, when
will we learn? So I took a break and now
I’m back. Too bad POC can take a break when
this racist nonsense gets them down.
(SERIOUSLY READ THE SARCASM IN THAT LAST STATEMENT!)
One of
the issues I want to address at this point, is the “new” item going around
saying: “People demand the Police get new training. How about training your
children to act like they got some damn common sense <sic>” My first response was, you mean when they
are walking home minding their own business, or jogging minding their own
business, or SLEEPING AFTER A LONG SHIFT AS AN EMT? Then I take it farther.
Let me explain. The police are not judge, jury, and
executioner. The job of the police is to
protect and serve. Even if the person in
custody has actually committed a crime, the police DO NOT GET TO MURDER that
person. They are to take the person into custody and let the justice system do
its job. Even if the person is screaming obscenities at the police, they DO NOT
GET TO KILL THEM. Will there be times that a suspect is killed by the police
and is possibly justified? Yes? Maybe
the person has an assault weapon and is trying to kill innocent people or even
shooting at the cops. Most likely that
person is going to be killed and most likely, that person is actually on a suicide
mission. *PSA--It is not ok to shoot innocent people or police just because you
can.
I’m
watching too many videos of simple things escalating because of hot headed cops.
*Please remember that I am not anti-police, just anti-bad police. A simple traffic stop of a couple with their
two small children ended up with 12 cops on the scene. The 4 year old child allegedly stole a doll
from the Dollar Store (or some equivalent). The cops were yelling obscenities
at the couple to get out of the car and the couple were afraid. The commands
were contradictory, e.g., keep your hands up, but then get out of the car. At one point a cop ran up into the woman’s
face screaming at her to “get her f’g hands up.!” She had 1 hand up and was holding her small
child in the other. The cop was
screaming at her to put the baby on the ground.
WHAT?! Come on now what is up with
that?
So, the
moral of the story is, that everyone deserves their day in court if they have allegedly
committed a crime—not to die. Everyone
deserves to be able to do their every
day thing, running, walking, eating at a restaurant, driving home, SLEEPING. Hhow
can you “train them up to have some common sense” when they haven’t (1) had a
jury of their peers and/or (2) haven’t done anything?
Think
about this. Do you really want to be the
person that tells Breonna Taylor’s family that she “should have had common sense?”
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