Tuesday, March 27, 2012

A Deeper Hole: POLICE INJUSTICE



OK I get it people are pissed off about just about everything. Now we are all lamenting the death of another young person killed for no good reason but prejudice and contempt. No I'm not talking about Trayvon Martin who was shot because he looked suspicious wearing a hoodie while being black. No I'm talking about "the killing of an unarmed Bronx teen, Ramarley Graham, 19, by an undercover narcotics officer; the police beating of another 19-year-old Bronx teen, Jatiek Reed" (FINAL CALL).Or the 2007 shooting in Oakland, Ca of unarmed Oscar Grant. Shot in the back while being detained by BART police officer. Or the host of other shootings by BART, sherrifs and police officers seemingly out of control all in an effort to "protect the public".In fact you can bet that the nightly media in California will stop everything to feature and focus on a high or low speed chase. These usually end in death during prime time viewing. Instant justice. No trial. While the commentators suggest that the police have every right to execute you for resisting arrest or driving drunk or reaching for his waste or having a gun or whatever. It has become public policy among agencies and law enforcement since 9-11 to blatantly take ones life without due cause. There is no balance on any side. The law enforcement community must be ignorant to the fact that everybody has the same access to deep information. They seem not to realize that public perceptions matter more than department policies and accountability is like the slow wheels of justice. The media is not anyones friend unless you accept their spin. I cannot believe that it took one month for the Trayvon Martin incident to become a national outcry. That is insane. Meanwhile we all tuned in to the latest Hollywood drug case or fallen stars due to self drug indulgence. Again insane; where are the priorities? We have become at risk to ourselves and our contrived misinterpretations of what is actually real and how it affect each of us. The average person takes to long to get "outraged".  I'm equally outraged at the amount of black on black and ever increasing black and Latino conflicts erupting like poisonous mushrooms all around the state. Time to think and wake the hell up and pay attention to all that affect our lives and our neighborsMeanwhile, nobody really cares until death or abuse has come and gone and another one of our youth or any human have been senselessly  marginalized without due cause.  

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