A Peek Into The Rise Of America’s Warrior Cop…

It’s nev­er end­ing, a sit­u­a­tion in law enforce­ment which ought to end rather mild­ly with the arrest of a sus­pect, ends with the sus­pect dead.
Oh by the way the sus­pect is male and just hap­pen to be African-American.
Welcome to the era of the American Warrior cop.
It is sick­en­ing what is hap­pen­ing and it real­ly begs the ques­tion , “who the hell will save Black-America?
I ask this because Black-America is bliss­ful­ly uncon­cerned about it’s own survival. 

Eric Harris was shot and killed by a reserve deputy who fired his gun after alleged­ly mis­tak­ing it for his taser, accord­ing to a state­ment from the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office.

It was a mis­take. That’s the blasé expla­na­tion Oklahoma offi­cials gave after the fatal shoot­ing of an unarmed black man by a white deputy who acci­den­tal­ly pulled his gun when he meant to use his Taser. The encounter was cap­tured on a dis­turb­ing video released by police on Friday — nine days after the fatal Tulsa shooting.

Harris bolt­ed from offi­cers who were try­ing to arrest him for sell­ing a 9 mm. semi­au­to­mat­ic pis­tol and ammu­ni­tion to under­cov­er cops. Harris, who was unarmed, had report­ed­ly done time for assault and bat­tery on an offi­cer. He was “absolute­ly a threat when going down,” Tulsa Police Sgt. Jim Clark said at a news con­fer­ence. Sheriff’s Capt. Billy McKelvey claims the arrest­ing offi­cers were not aware Harris had been shot, despite the gun­shot noise and Bates’ admis­sion. They called para­medics and fire­fight­ers, and ren­dered aid when they real­ized, McKelvey said. “He made an inad­ver­tent mis­take,” McKelvey said.
Sgt. Dave Walker told the Tulsa World that police “would not inves­ti­gate the death unless the sheriff’s office asked them to, and they have not asked us to.”

“He shot me! He shot me, man. Oh, my god. I’m los­ing my breath,” Eric Harris says as he strug­gles on the ground fol­low­ing the April 2 shoot­ing, which flew under the radar until video emerged a week later.
“Fuck your breath, “Shut the fuck up!”  One of the Savages shout­ed at Harris.
“You shouldn’t have fuck­ing ran!” anoth­er of the sav­ages screamed.
Eric Harris was pro­nounced dead less than an hour later.
In actu­al­i­ty he may have died right there as the bunch of sav­ages dressed in police attire knelt on his head and kept squeez­ing as the life drained out of him.
Eric Harris died as Eric Garner did.
As tens of thou­sands, arguably mil­lions, tens of mil­lions over the decades, have died at the hands of white Americans and their enforcers.

FUCK YOUR BREATH

The nar­ra­tive sur­round­ing the mur­der of Eric Harris is that 73 year-old Robert Bates the pay-to-play wannabe cop should not have been involved in the sting oper­a­tion which brought Harris down.
The total­i­ty of the dis­cus­sion com­plete­ly excludes the fact that there was absolute­ly no need to ini­ti­ate the use of a taser under the con­di­tions in the video as there were sev­er­al cops on top of Harris who was already sub­dued, includ­ing kneel­ing on his head.
I used the term mur­der in this case despite what we see in the video of mis­ter Bates’s appar­ent shock after fir­ing his weapon.
I do not believe Robert Bates is guilty of murder.
As a for­mer police offi­cer, I am inclined to give him the ben­e­fit of what we saw in the video.
He did not intend to pull and fire his weapon into Eric Harris.
The Department which allowed him to par­tic­i­pate in that sting must be held accountable.
The real mur­der­ers are the oth­er sav­ages, those who shout­ed exple­tives at a sub­dued Eric Harris, ridi­cul­ing his claim that he was los­ing his breath.
Eric Garner was choked to death on Staten Island by macho cop Daniel Pantaleo .
Garner told police sev­er­al times he could not breathe, Pantaleo kept up the pres­sure until Eric Garner was dead.
The NYPD and it’s sup­port­ers still do not get it, they claim if you can­not breath you can­not talk.
What absolute ignorance.
By that mea­sure they are allowed to apply pres­sure to a sus­pect until he can­not speak.
Only then are these demons con­vinced that some­one may actu­al­ly be hav­ing seri­ous prob­lems breathing.
When they have no breath left.
As the world saw Eric Garner is lay­ing in a cemetery.
Daniel Pantaleo did not even have to answer to a court of law for mur­der­ing him in plain view of the entire world.
There is a cal­lous dis­re­gard for the life of black peo­ple in America.
The police are just the enforcers, the real prob­lem is the white struc­ture which stands behind and allows it because it serves their interest.

The Wall Street Journal one of the Nation’s lead­ing Conservative Publication,and an enti­ty no one could accuse of being slack in it’s sup­port of cops,stated in a Aug. 7^th.2013 Article Titled, Rise of the war­rior cop.
Quote: “Since the 1960s, in response to a range of per­ceived threats, law-enforce­ment agen­cies across the U.S., at every lev­el of gov­ern­ment, have been blur­ring the line between police offi­cer and sol­dier. Driven by mar­tial rhetoric and the avail­abil­i­ty of mil­i­tary-style equip­ment — from bay­o­nets and M‑16 rifles to armored per­son­nel car­ri­ers — American police forces have often adopt­ed a mind-set pre­vi­ous­ly reserved for the bat­tle­field. The war on drugs and, more recent­ly, post‑9/​11 anti-ter­ror­ism efforts have cre­at­ed a new fig­ure on the U.S. scene: the war­rior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harsh­ly with tar­get­ed wrong­do­ers, and a grow­ing threat to famil­iar American liberties”.

The per­ceived wrong­do­ers are America’s black male.
Every arrest is esca­lat­ed into a mil­i­tary style event.
Events which under nor­mal cir­cum­stances would not raise an eye­brow were they done in the nor­mal ways of policing.
The idea that a sus­pect would run seem to be some­thing incon­ceiv­able these days.
One of the rea­son for this are laws which make it a crime to run from police.
This gives the new war­rior cop the idea that he now has the right to mur­der a flee­ing suspect.
The war­rior cop is now cop, pros­e­cu­tor, judge and executioner.
To hell with the pre­sump­tion of inno­cence, to hell with due process.
Welcome to the world of the Patriot Act and the new police state.

At the begin­ning of this Article I asked who “who will save Black-America?
I asked that ques­tion in the con­text of the way in which the black talk­ing-heads who hap­pen to make it onto tele­vi­sion allow the dis­cus­sion to go.
They all seem some­how stuck in the throes of slav­ery , unable to extri­cate them­selves from the nar­ra­tive designed by the slave-master.
The killing of Eric Harris was avoid­able. Yes Harris was engaged in a crime but if America is to be believed, cops do not get to apply the death penal­ty at their leisure and discretion.

A flee­ing sus­pect is not an anom­aly, faced with prison peo­ple run , it is a nor­mal human reaction.
It is not a licence for sadis­tic sav­ages to kill someone.
More and more the world is get­ting a view into the sor­did bel­ly which is America’s mytho­log­i­cal Justice system.
A sys­tem which sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly allows it’s agents to unlaw­ful­ly kill it’s own cit­i­zens with­out con­se­quence, while berat­ing oth­er nations about civ­il and human rights.
The hypocrisy is stun­ning yet under­stand­able by those who always main­tained that America’s crim­i­nal Justice sys­tem was actu­al­ly two sep­a­rate sys­tems, one for whites and one for every­one else.
The poor pathet­ic black talk­ing heads are unable to see that the real tragedy of Eric Harris’ killing is not that he was shot by an old man, but that after he was shot a group of sav­ages act­ing under the aus­pices of the law, knelt on his head until he was dead, all while hurl­ing exple­tive-laced insults at him.

The new default posi­tion is that a black man who was tick­et­ed as a col­lege stu­dent for jay-walk­ing may be jus­ti­fi­ably killed forty years lat­er, because he received that ticket.
Now any­one famil­iar with America’s sys­tem of jus­tice under­stands how young black men are tar­get­ed by law-enforcement.
For a young black male to avoid police con­tact he must almost make him­self invisible.
This makes every black male killed by police, deserv­ing of death.
Until the almost 40 mil­lion black peo­ple in America decide enough is enough there will be no change.