First, what happened to Mr. Garner is NOTHING like Ferguson.
Nothing.
The only connection between the 2 incidents is the attempt by those
who do well in their lives fertilizing the hate and division of
perceived racially motivated injustices to make these 2 events the
poisoned fruit of a single cause.
Trying to morph ‘hands up don’t shoot’ (a demonstrable Reichstag fire for DUPES) and ‘I can’t breathe’ is the Iraqi WMD of 2014.
That said, the grand jury of a mixed racial makeup (AND I HATE EVEN
STATING THAT) and it decision to find no indictment possible in the face of the NYC official autopsy/coroner report makes a farce out of justice if there was no UNKNOWN objective cause for this lack.
So, let’s have the DA (who I understand WANTS to do this) and the
judge and jurors volunteer to release the information, or let’s have the
EXCEPTION procedure to accomplish this mapped out and carried out,
because this moment in time is an exceptional one to tamp down the
destructive forces of racial division, nursed from isolated embers among
the permanently aggrieved into a fire. This astonishingly includes the
president of the USA who has had many chances in the last 6 years to
unite, but taken every single opportunity to divide us.
Imagine if Mr. Obama had, instead of likening his family to Mr.
Martin, had instead pointed out HIS ‘racial’ makeup was analogous to Mr.
Zimmerman’s. Instead we got what we got, and we have what we have.
In NYC the majority of officers on patrol are NOT WHITE
In THIS society today do we even NOTICE mixed race (of any combo)
couples? This is not 1964 Mississippi, and neither are Mr. Brown nor Mr.
Garner - Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney.
These are inarguable facts of America today. It’s a LONG LONG road
from Dredd Scott to Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Educ. to Rosa
Parks to here.
BUT…
Injustice does not have to be racial to inspire controlled rage. But
the temptation to assume this is the path for these and other crimes
makes it compulsory for the public to understand the thinking and
deliberations of the grand jury in the face of the astonishing, painful,
enraging actions (and inaction, and delayed actions) of the 4-8 police
officers surrounding a guy selling loose cigarettes with no regard for
NYC taxes and regulations, and was then accidentally executed by callous
and CRIMINAL disregard for his pleas combined with an ill conceived
necessity to remove him from public commerce.
Instead we have another stone on the scale of dysfunctional governance
Find a drug dealer.
If those cops had ignored Eric Garner’s presence that day, SO WHAT?
The Washington Post has an article today saying the Garner incident "deals a blow" to Obama's idea of putting cameras on cops.
ReplyDeleteThey say, look at the Garner case, there is footage and they still don't convict.
NOT REALLY.
The footage is cut off by some stupid fuck cop who tells the camerman to "back off ... get off of my step."
So the camerman backs up and can no longer show us what is happening.
It's not the policeman's step.
And that's part of the problem. Cops do not own the streets. They are there to protect the streets. But they decide they own them.
This belligerence needs to stop. It makes me, a law abiding citizen, dislike cops.
In California, four cops murdered a schizophrenic homeless man named Kelly Thomas. The video is clear. Kelly Thomas offered no resistance, and yet they beat him and choked him and sat on his chest for a good three or four minutes and in the end he died.
And little has been done about it.
In the end the cops were ACQUITTED.
Watch the video. You'll see. They murdered the man.
And those cops were belligerent.
These cops are not belligerent, but the effect is the same. The man winds up dead. The cops have, essentially, murdered a man.
And they got away with it.
How are we supposed to trust policemen?
Are we supposed to pull over when they stop us?
Should we have confidence they won't stir up some incident and use it to murder us?
When I was a young man, I was harrassed by police constantly because of the way I looked.
I never felt that I could not trust the police, though. I thought they were reasonable.
I no longer think I can afford to have such trust.
The Union mentality has combined with the "Brotherhood" of policemen, and turned cops into an occupying force with no relation to the community.
It has also turned cops into a solid leftist bloc to be protected by all the other parts of the leftist bloc.
This whole Ferguson thing is just a TV show.
It will peter into nothing, because the leftist bloc does not want the TV show to interfere with the reality of their pensions.
Cops used to be men. Now they are just pussies sucking on the leftist tit.
And pussies are the most dangerous to give physical power. They feel the need to get back at people for all the grievances, all the times they were made to realize their pussiness.
Why is it that many police officers feel as if they own the street?
ReplyDeleteWell said both of you.
ReplyDeleteI have had (and still have) a number of cops as friends and a few relatives.
Thus individually I trust them but as a whole it has been a long time since I did.
This man died for selling a cigarette. A cigarette.
A "crime" I have committed many times.
"Hey, mr, here's a quarter. Can I buy a cigarette from you I left mine at my desk?"
"Hey man, do you have an extra cigarette I can buy from you?"
For this a man died because they though he should be arrested.
But, in NYC had he sold a joint, he would have been merely written up for a summary offense.
America has turned sideways.
Ok well said all three of you. AoW snuck in there while I was typing...
ReplyDeleteDo the police get to choose which laws they will enforce?
ReplyDeleteWhere does the no-selling-loose-cigarettes law come from? And why not? Because the idea is that the cigarettes were not first purchased in NYC or were stolen?
In D.C. years ago, convenience marts used to buy cartons of cigarettes, then sell the cigarettes in pairs, 2 cigarettes for 25 cents. The packs of cigarettes got too expensive for some people, so that bought singles or pairs. I have no idea if selling cigarettes in that way was illegal.
MR,
ReplyDeleteBut, in NYC had he sold a joint, he would have been merely written up for a summary offense.
Huh? Even as a repeat offender?
Yup, I believe so, as long as there is no OUTSTANDING arrest warrant for the person.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-city-to-stop-arresting-for-basic-marijuana-possession/