It goes beyond white police/black people. In Salt Lake City cops approached some kids coming out of a convenience store, told `em to freeze or whatever, and a young white kid with earphones in reached for his belt to turn off his music to hear what they were saying…and was shot dead. I was traveling through Atlanta airport last summer when I read of a case of cops sent to arrest a black man in a domestic violence incident. They chased him into the woods, and stun-gunned him to death, jolting him over and over again. Both officers were black, as was their victim.
Something is really messed up. We’ve suppressed the high crime rate of the 60s and 70s, but it looks like we created a Frankenstein’s monster in the process.
It’s terrorism by the police, plain and simple. And they’re backed up by the judicial system. We’re being controlled by fear. How can we overcome this, when nonviolence doesn’t make a difference any more? Thanks for your input, Tom.
It’s not just a black-white thing.Up here in relatively lily white British Columbia, it seems that no matter how relatively harmless a mentally disturbed individual poses to the public or the over-armed cops, the only option they have had drilled into their peabrains is “SHOOT” and cry for sympathy>
And I thought the Canadians were more civilized than that. The police are just as trigger happy here in London, England, except they tend to use the excuse that they think the person’s a terrorist or a gun wielding thug. Even when there’s an innocent dead man, there’s never an arrest of a cop or even an apology. When the violence is so unaccountable, it makes us fear the police more, and therefore, makes us all easier to control. They know what they’re doing. Keep your head down, or it’ll get blown off!
Whew! You really hit the nail on the head with that one. Well done, Keith!
It goes beyond white police/black people. In Salt Lake City cops approached some kids coming out of a convenience store, told `em to freeze or whatever, and a young white kid with earphones in reached for his belt to turn off his music to hear what they were saying…and was shot dead. I was traveling through Atlanta airport last summer when I read of a case of cops sent to arrest a black man in a domestic violence incident. They chased him into the woods, and stun-gunned him to death, jolting him over and over again. Both officers were black, as was their victim.
Something is really messed up. We’ve suppressed the high crime rate of the 60s and 70s, but it looks like we created a Frankenstein’s monster in the process.
It’s terrorism by the police, plain and simple. And they’re backed up by the judicial system. We’re being controlled by fear. How can we overcome this, when nonviolence doesn’t make a difference any more? Thanks for your input, Tom.
It’s not just a black-white thing.Up here in relatively lily white British Columbia, it seems that no matter how relatively harmless a mentally disturbed individual poses to the public or the over-armed cops, the only option they have had drilled into their peabrains is “SHOOT” and cry for sympathy>
And I thought the Canadians were more civilized than that. The police are just as trigger happy here in London, England, except they tend to use the excuse that they think the person’s a terrorist or a gun wielding thug. Even when there’s an innocent dead man, there’s never an arrest of a cop or even an apology. When the violence is so unaccountable, it makes us fear the police more, and therefore, makes us all easier to control. They know what they’re doing. Keep your head down, or it’ll get blown off!