Criminals in the blue uniform: Your child may be next
everal years ago in 1996, Robert Jordan, a college graduate, took an exam to join the New London police in Connecticut, he passed with a score of 33 points, which is the equivalent of an IQ of 125. The point here is that Mr. Jordan was rejected from becoming a policeman in London, CT, and the reason, he was too intelligent to be a police.
Many years ago in Los Angeles, some police men were caught on Video tape savagely beating up Mr. Rodney King an African American gentleman. One would have thought that with Rodney King incident there would have been some lessons learned by these largely ignorant and poorly educated white men in the blue uniforms across the United States of American.
Then in February in February 1999, the unthinkable happened, an unarmed West African immigrant from Guinea, was brutally murdered in cold blood by officers of the New York City Police Department. Amadou Diallo was shot 41 one times. What evil and what hate will cause another man or men whose salaries are paid by the tax payers to senselessly gun down the people for whom they took an oath to serve and protect. The most disturbing thing about this was that the then Mayor of New York City sided with the killer cops. What this means to me and many others is that: city government forces are on the rampage to murder black males. This in itself is a very troubling assertion, what else could anyone make out of it, a murderer cop kills, and the city government is in support of him or her so long as the victim is black.
Many years went by and I very much wanted to forget about what happened to Amodou. I wanted to explain it away as just an unfortunate, isolated incident. No, it could not be isolated because we see the same pattern across the USA, I argue with myself. Still, I wanted to believe that it must be an isolated incident because anything else will upset my sense of balance and will destroy the little faith that I have in city government officials to always do the right thing.
Just as I thought I was getting over the Amadou's unjust killing then it happened again. Officers of the Inglewood, CA, Police Department were caught on tape beating and punching a slightly built African American male while in handcuffs. The arrested sixteen years, Donavon Jackson. This young man was clearly the weaker one against the strength of government forces. How does one justify punching an handcuffed frail looking young male, by officers who clearly look as if they were on some kind of steroids. Officer Jeremy Morse claimed and want us to believe that a powerless youth who was picked in of all places, gas filling station constitute a threat to his person. Officer Morse who was the one who slammed Donavon Jackson against the police vehicle, and then turned a young male, one fourth his size into a punching bag in what seems like a fit of rage, would like us to believe that the young man attacked him first. The officer's partner did not stop his criminal friend in the blue uniform, he went on to file false charges against the victim. These were people who have taken an oath "to serve and protect ....." so help them God. I saw on that Video tape how this young man was frightened beyond what I can describe, and for that matter we were told that Mr. Jackson aged, sixteen years has some types of learning disability. How cruel. Well, it is important that we are aware of what is going on in the various police departments in the USA. Tomorrow it may be your son.
When I saw the tape on the News on the Evening of July 6, 2002. I said to myself that something is absolutely wrong with the police systems in the United States. Something has to be wrong. You see these bullies in the blue uniform over and over take the law into their hands. They kill innocent people without any remorse and worst still they get away with committing murder time and time again. What is really troubling about all these is that good people all over the United States are standing up against all these police brutality in the minority communities all over the USA. These good people simple keep silent and looked away.
In the same week the Donavon incident happened in Inglewood, CA, another incident occurred on Oklahoma, a 50 year old African American male, Mr. Pete, was beaten to the ground by Oklahoma State police officers. All these types of things is all too real in the black communities and it makes people like me wonder what kind of people or should I say what kind of white people are enlisted in the police forces across the USA. The answer should not be too difficult to come by. I do not mind if mentally challenged individuals are the target of police recruitment all over the United States. Every one needs a chance in life, what worries me is really this: I can take and accept that these police men driving around in the neighborhoods across the USA, may be mentally deficient --- are they also suffering from paranoia. If a white male is paranoid about the African American communities, such male has no business being in any police force.
I will end by paraphrasing what Mrs. Diallo said on one of the interviews she had following after her son Amadou was killed. She said " one or two bullets she may be able to accept but 42 bullets, --- she said, no". What anger and what rage is waging war inside of these crazy white males in the police forces all over the USA, who by every account are poorly educated, that they most always over react to black people?
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