Don't Blame the Police
With Cleveland, Oh. As my local big town, I see it all the time. The police has people attack them, or pull a weapon, and when the police do whats necessary to stop the suspect, they get hammered with excessive force charges.
Is the police suppose to stand by and watch these suspect shoot at them or other innocent people. Its one thing if an adult suspect gets shot or killed, but its another when a minor suspect/victim does.
If a minor gets killed while committing a crime, lord help the police, the parents go saying they were good kids, even if they have records an arm long. And lets not forget, if they are African-Americans, you get Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, and the NAACP running around like cockroaches when the lights are turned on.
Cleveland has had several shooting the last few years, and rather they had a gun, a knife, or anything else, they police have been put under a microscope for doing things wrong.
But, let a police officer get killed serving a warrant, during a traffic stop, or responding to a robbery call and what happens? NOTHING!! No public screaming, no candlelight vigils, and where are those people list above, nowhere to be found.
Cleveland also had a kid get killed while robbing a gentleman at gunpoint, just so happens the gentleman happened to be able able to carry a concealed firearm. The kid got more sympathy than the guy who was being robbed. Whats wrong with that picture?
Now, if you grew up in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or early 80s, police was respected, the public stood behind them, not against them.
So, in my opinion, if your the criminal that gets shot or killed while committing a crime, you get what you deserve, and if your the family/ parents of a kid that gets killed, don't blame anyone but yourself, you should have taught them better.
Remember, police officers are doing a service for us, they protect our property, our families and our life's from harm. Bet you'd be the first ones calling if something happened to you or a loved one.
Maybe next time you see one, tell them thanks, thanks for putting your life on the line to protect us.
Published by Earl Pyle
I'm a 43 yr old man who see's things as they are with no rose colored glasses, and not afraid to say someting about. View profile
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Post a CommentYes, I do blame the police. Their job is to protect and serve, not harrass and incite, try, judge, convict and execute sentences. Is sitting at a bench in a park sipping coffee and reading religious material a crime that warrents cops to drive up on the grass and question a law-abiding citizen? Is lying in the grass under a tree at a park a crime that needs police investigating? Is visiting one's mother and taking a walk to visit a minister a reason to get slammed up against a police car?
Homeless man killed for taking aluminum can out of trash. Carolyn Fisher's face is smashed against a store window. The unhealthy grandmother's crime: hanging a sign on a telephone pole. Man's arm is broken for "resisting arrest". His crime? He did not obey an officers command to pick up a cigarette butt and put it in the trash. Man killed by police at a Halloween party; guest thought the police were in costume and aimed a toy gun at them, being playful. Man shoots at the dark at intruders, who happen to be police breaking in with a search warrent. Oops, wrong apartment building. List is endless. Cops sodomize suspect with broom...
Why would a policeman accost a citizen for walking home from a store? "Hey you, come here" was his command and if I had not noticed the LB patch on his shirt, I would have kept on walking, assuming he was some jerk trying to pick me up. (unmarked police car) Thinking he might want to ask me about seeing some criminal, I approached the car. What followed was "Are you on parole?" and a continued 3rd degree. Imagine if I had kept walking, he would have jumped out of the car, for my seemingly flagrant disobedience and me, unaware, may have fought off the attack from a stranger, and next I would have been arrested for resisting arrest. It happens all the time. Especially if one is a person of color.
Very Good Point! Too bad not everyone agrees. Here's a website you might like: http://www.cafepress.com/memphiscops
Amen! I see it all the time.