The PBA which rep­re­sents NYPD offi­cers held a press con­fer­ence August 5^th 2014. The pur­pose of the Press Conference as they saw it, was to push back at what they see as slan­der of the NYPD by peo­ple who spoke out against them killing 43 year-old unarmed Asthmatic Eric Garner.

Of course, they were quick to name their reg­u­lar whip­ping boy Al Sharpton one of only a few black Americans with the balls to chal­lenge them when they abuse and kill blacks.

Patrick Lynch is well paid to make state­ments in defense of Cops., what he does­n’t real­ize is that he makes him­self less and less rel­e­vant each time he makes these state­ments in sup­port of his col­leagues. Lynch’s com­ments are rel­e­vant to his col­leagues and those who hero-wor­ship cops, no one else.

Police offi­cers are paid to pro­tect the pub­lic. The NYPD has devel­oped a cul­ture of arro­gance which have them believ­ing they are exempt from obey­ing the laws. Separate and apart from phys­i­cal assaults and ques­tion­able killings, they have a his­to­ry of fal­si­fy­ing reports to put peo­ple they do not like in prison.

Lynch insist that the deceased Eric Garner was warned about being in that area a week ear­li­er. That state­ment speaks vol­umes about the atti­tude of NYPD’s offi­cers, who clear­ly have a God com­plex. It is fair to deduce that Eric Garner need­n’t have com­mit­ted any breach of the law on the day he was killed, as some onlook­ers insist (he had­n’t). His mere pres­ence would have been enough for him to be bru­tal­ly assault­ed and sub­se­quent­ly killed in a choke hold by NYPD cops.

Operating ful­ly as expect­ed they tar­get­ed the young man who video-taped them killing Eric Garner. Ramsey Orta was arrest­ed for Criminal pos­ses­sion of a firearm. Now grant­ed that mis­ter Orta may have a less than stel­lar record , what are the chances the NYPD arrest­ed him pass­ing a gun to a female com­pan­ion as they claimed ? Ramsey Orta’s wife com­plained that NYPD cops staked out their house,and shone lights into their home after he video­taped them killing Eric Garner.

Many peo­ple have long seen some cops includ­ing some in the NYPD as com­mon Gangsters,. If this is true, and there is no rea­son not to believe her, these cops are out of con­trol and are no dif­fer­ent from reg­u­lar mafioso.

PATRICK lYNCH

On the death of Eric Garner.

“That atti­tude is a direct result of the lack of respect for law enforce­ment result­ing from the slan­der­ous, insult­ing and unjust man­ner in which police offi­cers are being por­trayed by race baiters, politi­cians, pun­dits and even elect­ed offi­cials. We are here today to send a mes­sage to all crim­i­nals in every com­mu­ni­ty across our city that the charge of resist­ing arrest is a very seri­ous and dan­ger­ous crime.”

Clearly what Patrick Lynch, who is hired by the Taxpaying cit­i­zens of the City of New York, is telling res­i­dents is, “as long as we feel you are resist­ing we will kill you”. These are not the words of Public ser­vants Such unmit­i­gat­ed arro­gance usu­al­ly comes from Despots and Dictators.

Who works for who?

These thugs demon­stra­bly do not have any respect for the peo­ple who pay their salaries. Not to be out­done the SBA Sergeants Benovolent Assc. issued this state­ment from its President Edward Mullins.

“The attacks on the NYPD have become com­plete­ly dis­grace­ful and tru­ly unwar­rant­ed. Police Officer Pantaleo didn’t go to work with the inten­tion of killing any­one. He sim­ply was try­ing to do his job. Would the cir­cum­stances be dif­fer­ent today if Eric Garner was not com­mit­ting a crime or had com­plied with a law­ful order? The men and women of the NYPD are being unfair­ly tar­get­ed by bot­tom feed­ers and politi­cians who have cho­sen to pla­cate a cast of char­ac­ters whose cred­i­bil­i­ty is less than moral. These attacks on the NYPD are wrong, need to stop and the hard work­ing peo­ple of this city need to stand and sup­port the NYPD.”

Anyone who believe that NYPD’S killing of unarmed African-American and Latino men will come to an end any­time soon is gross­ly mis­guid­ed. Nothing short of Federal super­vi­sion of this Department will bring any mean­ing­ful change in atti­tude.

The prob­lem with the NYPD is one of atti­tude.They do not believe they are account­able to the cit­i­zens of New York, and God for­bid cer­tain­ly not the Black and Brown cit­i­zens of the city.

On the arrest Ramsey Orta.

“The arrest of Ramsey Orta for crim­i­nal pos­ses­sion of a firearm only under­scores the dan­gers that brought police offi­cers to respond to a chron­ic crime con­di­tion in that com­mu­ni­ty. It is crim­i­nals like Mr. Orta who car­ry ille­gal firearms who stand to ben­e­fit the most by demo­niz­ing the good work of police offi­cers. Sadly, in the effort to keep neigh­bor­hoods like Tompkinsville safe, a tragedy occurred. But that doesn’t change the fact that police offi­cers rou­tine­ly risk their lives for the ben­e­fit of the com­mu­ni­ty and that they have earned their sup­port and understanding.

I guess this is an improve­ment over pre­vi­ous instances when they tell res­i­dents shut the f*** up and call a crim­i­nal next time you need a cop. The fact is the cit­i­zens are less and less sure who is crim­i­nal from who is cop.

Have you ever been in a Supermarket, on a flight, or in oth­er pub­lic places and see kids act­ing up to the cha­grin and embar­rass­ment of their par­ents? Yet you smile to your­self because you know many of those par­ents had not laid any dis­ci­pli­nary frame­work for the kid, and are only then try­ing to dis­ci­pline the kid out of embarrassment.

The United States report­ed­ly gives over 3 Billion Dollars in direct Aid to Israel each year, the aver­age American cit­i­zen has no idea just how much more of their tax dol­lars are sent to the Zionist state indi­rect­ly. America Unequivocally sup­ports Israeli actions against Palestinian and oth­er Middle Eastern Nations even when the rest of the World cry foul to Israel’s actions.

As I have allud­ed to in pre­vi­ous blogs, one can­not be elect­ed dog-catch­er in the United States unless he/​she drinks at the Well of Israeli Righteousness. Critics are sum­mar­i­ly dis­missed as irrel­e­vant, or brand­ed anti-Semitic. It mat­ters not whether the crit­i­cisms being lev­eled at Israel are jus­ti­fied. Venom and back­lash are sure to follow.

Pastors like John Hagee preach­es curse and destruc­tion on any­one who dares to com­par­a­tive­ly look at the actions of Israel and say wait just a minute, this here is wrong. What makes the likes of Hagee less than cred­i­ble, is their hyp­o­crit­i­cal one-sided view of things.

It mat­ters not how many babies and inno­cent peo­ple are killed by Israel , it is all par for the course for those of the John Hagee ilk. It is all jus­ti­fied and nec­es­sary because it is all for Israel’s sur­vival. What makes these pon­tif­i­caters dan­ger­ous is that they use Biblical Scriptures to jus­ti­fy Israel’s war crimes against humanity.

No oth­er Nation on earth would be allowed to kill so many inno­cents and get away with it. The United States is ratch­et­ing up sanc­tions against Russia for its reuni­fi­ca­tion with Crimea. Of course the Russians believe they can­not annex a region which has been part of Russia his­tor­i­cal­ly, but I digress.

America waged war on Iraq sup­pos­ed­ly over sus­pi­cions of banned weapons. America waged war in Yugoslavia over Slobodan Milosevic’s alleged killing of Muslims. America has staked out a moral high-ground on the issue of Human rights, and on the mass killing of inno­cent peo­ple for the rest of the world, yet on Israel it is silent.

President Obama seem an unwill­ing ser­vant of the Zionist state of Israel , yet he has to cow-tow even as the world’s most pow­er­ful man, in sup­port of the Israeli nar­ra­tive. Amy Goodman of Democracy now reports.

The threat of more vio­lence fol­lows a week that saw Israel kill at least 192 Palestinians in a mas­sive bomb­ing cam­paign on one of the world’s most dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed areas. The United Nations esti­mates more than 80 per­cent of Gaza’s dead are civil­ians, includ­ing 36 chil­dren. More than a thou­sand rock­ets from Gaza have hit Israel over the same peri­od, with just a frac­tion land­ing in urban areas. Around a dozen Israelis have been wound­ed. There have been no Israelis report­ed killed.

The Huffington Post reports:

Following the quick col­lapse of the cease-fire in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the White House not to force a

truce with Palestinian mil­i­tants on Israel.

Sources famil­iar with con­ver­sa­tions between Netanyahu and senior U.S. offi­cials, includ­ing Secretary of State John Kerry, say the Israeli leader advised the Obama admin­is­tra­tion “not to ever sec­ond guess me again” on the mat­ter. The offi­cials also said Netanyahu said he should be “trust­ed” on the issue and about the unwill­ing­ness of Hamas to enter into and fol­low through on cease-fire talks.

Well what do you know? Remember those undis­ci­plined chil­dren you last encoun­tered? Those kids who roamed around and caused dis­com­fort and embar­rass­ment to every­one includ­ing you and their par­ents?.…… Ditto !!!

The fact is that Israel has been shel­tered and pro­tect­ed by major west­ern pow­ers, includ­ing the US and England for decades. The state of Israel has been able to cir­cum­vent and abro­gate International Laws with­out con­se­quences while hid­ing behind the afore­men­tioned powers.

At the heart of almost every con­flict in the Middle East is the issue of Israeli Occupation and dehu­man­iza­tion of the Palestinian peo­ple. Many of the Christian Pastors who pon­tif­i­cate on this issue, fail to men­tion the fact that most Palestinian dead are inno­cent chil­dren and the most vulnerable.

What they also fail to men­tion, is that many Palestinian dead are CHRISTIANS, not dis­card-able ‚dis­pos­able Muslims as they would have you believe.

In New York City, over the past decade, cops made 55,000 arrests where the top charge was resist­ing arrest, accord­ing to data from the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. That means the mis­de­meanor or infrac­tion cops orig­i­nal­ly pur­sued was less seri­ous than what hap­pened dur­ing the arrest. Special felony assault charges for peo­ple accused of injur­ing a cop or oth­er pub­lic safe­ty work­er. Those are the top charges in more than 1,300 cas­es each year. But dis­po­si­tion data shows the charges rarely hold up in court. Attorneys said that’s because in many cas­es it’s the cit­i­zen who was hurt, but cops add the assault charge to jus­ti­fy their use of force. http://​www​.wnyc​.org/​s​t​o​r​y​/​w​h​e​n​-​b​r​o​k​e​n​-​w​i​n​d​o​w​s​-​l​e​a​d​s​-​b​u​s​t​e​d​-​h​e​a​ds/

Yesterday I talked about Police using exces­sive force and in many cas­es esca­lat­ing minor infrac­tions which ulti­mate­ly leads to a vio­lent arrests. As I indi­cat­ed yesterday

from my expe­ri­ence it is the atti­tude of police offi­cers which large­ly leads

to a con­fronta­tion between police and cit­i­zen. Police offi­cers do not have to turn their backs on small offences. It is impor­tant to pur­sue minor offences, if left unchecked minor offences do lead to larg­er crimes. Police do not need to have their hands tied, they sim­ply have to exer­cise bet­ter judge­ment with the pow­ers they are giv­en. It is impor­tant that cops real­ize the pow­ers they have are giv­en to them by citizens.

New York City’s Mayor Bill De Blasio came to office vow­ing to improve Police com­mu­ni­ty rela­tions. His Police Commissioner William Bratton who served under Rudolph Giuliani, under whose Administration Police pret­ty much did what they want­ed to minori­ties , said :

We will con­tin­ue to aggres­sive­ly pur­sue qual­i­ty of life offens­es. But there could be oth­er ways to han­dle peo­ple accused of such crimes. “If it requires arrest, fine. But if it only requires an admo­ni­tion — ‘Move along, you can’t do that.’ — Well, I want to make sure our offi­cers under­stand that they’re giv­en great pow­ers of discretion”.

Bratton’s com­ments are a good start, though I could have done with­out the word aggres­sive­ly . Not every cop under­stands that aggres­sive­ly going after minor offences

does­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly mean being aggres­sive with mem­bers of the pub­lic. It’s impor­tant Precinct and shift Commanders under­stands this.

In the past, some Commanders have pres­sured offi­cers to be aggres­sive. Many offi­cers feel the pres­sure and are some­times offend­ed, yet they toe the line. Those who speak out are brand­ed liars and trou­ble makers.

Experience taught me, if some­one offends they will most like­ly respond pos­i­tive­ly to an offi­cer who respect­ful­ly points out the infrac­tion and gives the per­son a warn­ing. Conversely, peo­ple are offend­ed when cops are rude and aggres­sive to them even though they may have com­mit­ted an offence, they do not take kind­ly to being spo­ken down to. If an offi­cer feels abused by an offend­er he tries to give a warn­ing to, then an arrest is in order. Police offi­cers must be remind­ed and should remind them­selves, when some­one offend they offend against the state and not the offi­cer. Adopting that men­tal­i­ty pre­vents offi­cers from per­son­al­iz­ing things . Personalizing what an offend­er does leads to confrontation.

All of this is premised how­ev­er, on the notion that police depart­ments want to elim­i­nate or reduce con­fronta­tion with mem­bers of the pub­lic. From all indi­ca­tions there is no evi­dence in sup­port of that the­o­ry. As I point­ed out yes­ter­day sev­er­al states have actu­al­ly passed new laws allow­ing cops to arrest cit­i­zens who have com­mit­ted no crime except to video­tape police actions against oth­er mem­bers of the pub­lic. It would be laugh­able if it was­n’t so seri­ous that these new laws gives cops the say-so whether some­one can video­tape their actions. Every cit­i­zen plugged in should be ter­ri­fied that their rights are being abro­gat­ed by those they elect to look out for their inter­est. The ques­tion remains as always, “in whose inter­est are these tyran­ni­cal laws being imple­ment­ed”?

The answer may be sim­pler than you think.

As the Palestinian Israeli con­flict rages on, the World goes about it’s busi­ness as usu­al as if noth­ing is hap­pen­ing. After all we have all been down this road before. It will die

down soon­er if not lat­er to an uneasy lull. In the end there will be a cou­ple of dead Israelis and a cou­ple thou­sand dead Palestinians. Supporters of Israel sleep at night by telling them­selves it’s a war waged between Barbaric ter­ror­ist Muslims and the God fear­ing Israeli peo­ple who just want to be left in peace to live their lives.

Objective observers see it quite dif­fer­ent­ly. This issue is far deep­er than the nar­ra­tive fed us through Jewish American owned and con­trolled media entities.

Not only are west­ern­ers fed this utter bile by CNN, BBC and oth­er Media hous­es, there is no framed his­tor­i­cal con­text for the con­flict. What we are fed is a con­stant stream of pro Israel pro­pa­gan­da usu­al­ly from the safe con­fines of .…. you guessed it Israel.

No one both­ers to men­tion that 1.8 mil­lion Palestinians were rout­ed from their homes and forced into squat­ter set­tle­ments on a tiny strip of land in 1948. Effectively mak­ing Gaza the World’s largest prison.

Since then Palestinians in the Gaza strip have been sub­ject­ed to con­stant humil­i­a­tion, bom­bard­ment and occu­pa­tion by the Zionist state of Israel, thanks to the most sophis­ti­cat­ed weapon­ry and mil­i­tary tech­nol­o­gy known to mankind.

Dr. Mosheer Amer – PalestineChronicle quote :

Thus, Palestinian suf­fer­ing and vic­tims become invis­i­ble and unwor­thy to be report­ed, and report­ing on Palestinian casu­al­ties is san­i­tized and abstract­ed, and a detached, mit­i­gat­ed lan­guage pre­dom­i­nates the reportage when Palestinian vic­tims arrive to hos­pi­tals with charred bod­ies and torn limbs. Such report­ing that only scratch­es the shal­low sur­face of real­i­ty shields Israel from the same moral scruti­ny it applies to the Palestinians. What is worse, it pro­vides a self-serv­ing moral uni­verse unbur­dened by the incon­ve­nience over the suf­fer­ing and pain of the unwor­thy “oth­er”.

Decades of this unjust report­ing has cre­at­ed a myth­i­cal imagery of the Apartheid Israel. Deceiving even those who pro­fess to love God and preach his ways, into accept­ing the cal­lous slaugh­ter of inno­cent men, women, and chil­dren, as just pun­ish­ment for those who would fight against his peo­ple Israel.

The real­i­ty is that true Jewish peo­ple , African peo­ple, are not wel­come in the Apartheid state of Israel. The Israeli Government refers to Africans com­ing into the ancient land as infil­tra­tors. We have writ­ten on this, right here in these blogs. Many African Jews are sit­ting in con­cen­tra­tion camps in the mid­dle of the Negev desert today.

The major­i­ty of Israelis in Israel are the descen­dants of white Europeans who fled Hitler dur­ing the sec­ond world war. They have no lin­eage or

his­tor­i­cal con­nec­tion to the land they occu­py. They can offer no his­tor­i­cal link­age to Palestine beyond alle­ga­tions that God promised them the land. If God promised Palestinian lands to Jews, it cer­tain­ly could not have been the Caucasians who now live there.

It would be to the peace­ful African Jews who can trace their Jewish blood­line back to Biblical times. These African Jews are treat­ed like garbage in the Apartheid state of Israel.

One can­not take onto him­self a reli­gion and claim divine promise. Being Jewish is genet­ic. Can a Caucasian adopt Islam then march in and claim Saudi Arabia the birth place of Islam as his? How then can one claim to be Jewish and take Palestine from it’s right­ful owners?

We have allowed our­selves to become pas­sive observers at best and will­ing par­tic­i­pants at worse. We have become dis­in­ter­est­ed pawns in this vil­lain­ous and deceit­ful manip­u­la­tion of truth and Justice. We have twist­ed our God-giv­en sen­si­tiv­i­ties of truth and jus­tice to match that which we are fed, even though we know they are lies.

We have come to accept death to mean the death of Israelis. Dead Palestinians are sum­mar­i­ly dis­card­ed, and ignored. The peo­ple with no bomb shel­ters, and crude home-made rock­ets are aggres­sors. Those who have advanced weapons which rain death from the skies onto defense­less and unsus­pect­ing civil­ians are victims.

Israel and it’s sur­ro­gates berates and ridicule the United Nations , effec­tive­ly cre­at­ing the excuse it does not have to abide by UN’s Resolutions, even as the rest of the world is oblig­at­ed to respect UN res­o­lu­tions and char­ters. This cre­ates the space the Zionist state needs to con­tin­ue its uncon­scionable oppres­sion and mas­sacre of the Palestinian people.

It is Apartheid . Israel’s aggres­sion against Palestinian is , yet we refuse to call it what it is. We are noth­ing, if we remain silent in our own per­ceived com­forts as oth­ers are man­han­dled, muti­lat­ed and mur­dered. Where is our humanity?

WE INFORM YOU DECIDE

London based Amnesty International said there needs to be full trans­paren­cy by the Jamaican Government on alle­ga­tions of human rights vio­la­tions by the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the rea­sons for the sud­den depar­ture of Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington.

Jamaica’s DAILY GLEANER report­ed Thursday July 24^th that the watch­dog group is demand­ing that the Government obey it’s inter­na­tion­al obligations .

Amnesty demands

*Any infor­ma­tion relat­ed to alle­ga­tions of human rights violations
*The out­come of inter­na­tion­al inves­ti­ga­tions into the actions of the JCF
*The nature of the human rights vio­la­tions reported
*The iden­ti­ty of the inter­na­tion­al part­ners and the rec­om­men­da­tions they have made. http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​l​a​t​e​s​t​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​.​p​h​p​?​i​d​=​5​4​431

IN THE MEANTIME

Over 800 Palestinians have been slaugh­tered in Gaza by the Zionist state of Israel in recent fight­ing . Less than 50 Israeli’s have died in the conflict.

In response to the wide dis­par­i­ty in the body count between the two fac­tions Ami Ayalon, the for­mer head of Israel’s Shin Bet secu­ri­ty agency said quote:

We do not mea­sure ethics and moral­i­ty by count­ing dead bod­ies. The fact that many more Palestinians than Israelis have died does not mean that our cause, or this war, is not just. Many more Germans than Americans died in World War II. Does that mean that Hitler was right and America was wrong?

There is that moral equiv­a­lence again. America did it so we can too. Israel has used that tact over and over in jus­ti­fy­ing its war crimes against the Palestinian peo­ple for decades. Whether it be WW11 or America’s response to the September 11^th 2001 attacks, Israel has hitched its wag­ons to the moral equiv­a­lence train of America.

This tact is strate­gic for Israel, not just in using America’s mil­i­tary might to fright­en it’s more pow­er­ful ene­mies, but in keep­ing in line, a Democratic American President less than anx­ious to wage war.

Yesterday as I stood in the Departure lounge of a Florida Airport I over­heard on tele­vi­sion that 39 Israelis have been killed since the start of renewed con­flict between the two sides. I asked my wife whether she heard how many Palestinians were killed ? She shook her head no. An elder­ly woman stand­ing close by chimed in “it’s a shame they only report on the Israeli’s as if the oth­er side are not peo­ple too”! I looked at her and smiled, I guessed she saw that what she said encap­su­lat­ed my thoughts result­ing in the ques­tion to my wife. We both watched for a lit­tle while longer then saun­tered off to catch our flights.

Oh by the way I have not heard any­thing from Amnesty International on this wan­ton slaugh­ter, which involves most­ly women chil­dren, and inno­cent families.

ALSO IN THE NEWS

Staten Island res­i­dent Eric Garner was laid to rest yes­ter­day . Garner was killed when NYPD Cops placed him in a banned choke hold as they tried to arrest him. The Police alleges Garner was sell­ing un-taxed cig­a­rettes. The father of 6 chil­dren died on the spot from all accounts. Neither the cops who placed him in the choke hold and cuffed him nor the EMT who arrived on scene did any­thing to help Garner.

The Video was shock­ing, a female EMT per­son­nel who arrived on scene felt Garner’s neck for a

pulse and nod­ded in the affir­ma­tive to one of the cops that Garner was still alive. This was clear­ly a lie . Her opin­ion was not sup­port­ed by the video evi­dence. From all indi­ca­tion Eric Garner died as NYPD cops stood by and did nothing.

EMT per­son­nel clear­ly lied to cov­er for cops who knew Garner was dead on scene. Two EMT’s and two Paramedics have since been sus­pend­ed with­out pay in con­nec­tion with this inci­dent. The tech­niques used to hoist mis­ter Garner’s body onto a stretch­er was clear­ly not in con­junc­tion with their own guide­lines. No Oxygen was giv­en to mis­ter Garner , even after they were told he said he could­n’t breathe. Why would they not give him Oxygen, could it be that they knew he was already dead? http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/funeral-today-eric-garner-article‑1.1877381

The wan­ton killing and abuse of Black men con­tin­ue unabat­ed across America by Police.. Black women are not exempt from the vis­cous testos­terone jack-boot­ed assault, from what now pass­es for Police offi­cers in America. In inci­dent after inci­dent Cops beat peo­ple of col­or mer­ci­less­ly, large­ly with­out con­se­quence. On the International stage Israel kills Palestinians as a mat­ter of course, uncon­cerned with the dic­tates of International law. On nei­ther of these issues have we heard from Amnesty International.

In these Blogs we have con­sis­tent­ly point­ed out these incon­sis­ten­cy in the inter­est of jus­tice. The Palestinian peo­ple do not depend on oth­ers to fight their bat­tles , though out gunned and out maneu­vered they con­tin­ue the fight for their sur­vival despite innu­mer­able odds.

Amnesty International con­tin­ue on it’s path to self imposed irrel­e­vance. Well mean­ing peo­ple the world over now rec­og­nizes that they are for selec­tive Human Rights and cer­tain­ly not about justice.

Despite Hundreds of years of slaugh­ter , first by slavers, then slave own­ers , through Jim Crowe, chain gangs, the KKK and now Police, blacks con­tin­ue to focus large­ly on enter­tain­ment. We have played into the nar­ra­tive that if one wants to hide some­thing from us all they have to do is place it in a book. Even those of us who come from oth­er coun­tries would rather pre­tend that things are fine in America, sav­ing our ven­om for our cops back home.

Things are not fine, many young men of Jamaican par­ents have been abused and killed by Police in these United States. Yet many of us pre­tend that American cops are cour­te­ous respon­si­ble pub­lic servants.

All we are able to do is to con­tin­ue to try to awak­en your con­scious­ness. The rest is up to you.

The Rule of law must be respect­ed, with­out it we have no buffer between us and those who would us harm. It is a fright­en­ing irony when those we employ to stand between us and those who would bring harm to us, are the ones doing harm to us.

We must ask our­selves “why is it that Police Officers feel empow­ered to kill a mem­ber of the pub­lic over some mis­de­meanor offense”?

Every per­son run­ning for office in the United States from Presidential can­di­dates to dog-catch­er runs on a law-and-order plat­form. It is so crit­i­cal that a juiced-up-cop wrong­ly harassed and assault­ed an emi­nent Ivy League Professor, wide­spread con­dem­na­tion erupt­ed from many quar­ters includ­ing the President of the United States. In the end the cop gets invit­ed to the White House for a beer summit.

What is it which makes the American cop untouch­able? What gives the American cop the invin­ci­ble, untouch­able persona?

As a for­mer Law Enforcement offi­cial myself, I under­stand the dif­fi­cul­ties of the job. I also under­stand that I am not a God ! Police offi­cers in the United States do not see them­selves as peace offi­cers. In fact watch­ing cops in action in instance after instance, con­vinces me that cops delib­er­ate­ly dis­re­spect some cit­i­zens with the express intent of esca­lat­ing an issue which if dealt with calm­ly and pro­fes­sion­al­ly would sim­ply dissipate.

There are Ivory Tower dwellers who believe that Urban dwellers hate cops and are opposed to the rule of law. Recently one reporter went on an irra­tional rant about young black men after a young cop was killed. The Network had the good sense to dis­ci­pline him. Having been around inner cities all my adult life , I must con­fess there are cer­tain hos­til­i­ties to Law Enforcement. This is true whether you are in New York or Rio, DC or Kingston.

Police Officers must be trained to under­stand these issues and deal with them appro­pri­ate­ly. Most of these hos­til­i­ties come from some involved in crim­i­nal behav­ior. However the Police are not blame­less. Much of the hos­til­i­ties direct­ed at them are of their own mak­ing. This too runs the geo­graph­i­cal gamut. What is true of many Police Departments , hav­ing spo­ken to friends who are Police Officers, is that offi­cers are actu­al­ly encour­aged to have acri­mo­nious rela­tion­ships with minor­i­ty communities.

What’s shock­ing is that some Department heads actu­al­ly encour­age offi­cers to be cold and dis­re­spect­ful to even law abid­ing mem­bers of minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties. Let’s not kid our­selves, when large quan­ti­ties of black and brown men are locked away in the prison indus­tri­al com­plex, America’s race prob­lems are half solved. Prisons are big busi­ness­es , many are run by pri­vate sec­tor com­pa­nies which kick back huge sums of cash to the polit­i­cal cam­paigns of those dogs bark­ing the loud­est on the law and order issue.

You do see how this cycle is per­pet­u­at­ed? Cops and their Unions know this. So the cen­tral ques­tion then becomes,“who will bell the cat”? The sim­ple answer is no one! This is an issue so tox­ic and explo­sive , even the White House will not get involved in a local mat­ter involv­ing Police Departments. At least not a White House where the occu­pant is a black President.

Forty three year old Staten Island res­i­dent Eric Garner was killed by NYPD cops who placed him in a choke-hold, sup­pos­ed­ly to arrest him for sell­ing un-taxed cig­a­rettes. The police claimed Garner was pre­vi­ous­ly arrest­ed for doing the same thing. 

UN-TAXED CIGARETTES

Whether or not he was arrest­ed before for sell­ing cig­a­rettes, why was it nec­es­sary to place him in a choke hold to effect an arrest? They knew him, why was a tick­et not appro­pri­ate? The offence was not a felony! In fact from some accounts, no offense was even committed.

Why are these tat­tooed Black-water-type mer­ce­nar­ies being allowed to inter­act with the black com­mu­ni­ty? I don’t see any cops look­ing like this in some oth­er com­mu­ni­ties. Look it is impor­tant that if you are told you are under arrest that you sub­mit to being arrest­ed. But is it nec­es­sary to pile onto some­one press­ing his head into the pave­ment for sell­ing un-taxed cig­a­rettes? These are the ques­tions we must ask! Or is the arrest jus­ti­fied , irre­spec­tive of the cost, even at the cost of a life lost? Are these Pyrrhic arrests that impor­tant to the States and Municipalities?

It is a trag­ic irony when death becomes the penal­ty for a minor infrac­tion. When absolute com­pli­ance with the law becomes so fun­da­men­tal a shack­le that it mat­ters not whether you live or die. It is tyran­ny when the State becomes the great­est enti­ty of fear, it is time to be very fearful.

Even as the United States takes it onto itself to dic­tate to oth­er Nations about Human Rights. Cops in city after American city con­tin­ue to kill unarmed black and his­pan­ic men with­out penalty.

Cops in the United States kill peo­ple with a fright­en­ing fre­quen­cy, yet inci­dent after inci­dent gets washed away under the pre­text that the sys­tem is trust­wor­thy and these killings are prop­er­ly inves­ti­gat­ed and jus­tice is served.

Well guess what? Justice is not being served when Grand Juries are con­vened in pri­vate with no input from the pub­lic , and cops are exon­er­at­ed as a mat­ter of course.

Instances of Police Thuggery con­tin­ue unabat­ed, Black man killed by cops, bystanders take a few pic­tures, record a few min­utes of video, peo­ple are enraged, they wash away the blood, it’s back to busi­ness as usu­al. We are told that the mat­ter is being inves­ti­gat­ed, but what real­ly hap­pens is that the cops are giv­en a pat on the back for a job well done, sent home with full pay for a few weeks until those milling around are qui­et­ed down and the cycle continues.

A 400-pound asth­mat­ic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a choke-hold and oth­er offi­cers appeared to slam his head against the side­walk, video of the inci­dent shows. “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner, 43, repeat­ed­ly screamed after at least five NYPD offi­cers took him down in front of a Tompkinsville beau­ty sup­ply store when he balked at being hand­cuffed. Within moments Garner, a mar­ried father of six chil­dren with two grand­chil­dren, stopped strug­gling and appeared to be uncon­scious as police called para­medics to the scene. An angry crowd gath­ered, some record­ing with smart­phones. “When I kissed my hus­band this morn­ing, I nev­er thought it would be for the last time,” Garner’s wife, Esaw, told the Daily News. Article here: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/staten-island-man-dies-puts-choke-hold-article‑1.1871486

This was an inci­dent where cops need­ed to walk away. These cops seem to have a God Complex . This man was clear­ly doing noth­ing wrong, all they had to do is leave, they did not they chose to kill this man for no reason.

The rea­son they do these things is because there are no con­se­quences for their actions. The black com­mu­ni­ty will have to make a tac­ti­cal deci­sion whether it wants to con­tin­ue to be a com­mu­ni­ty of casu­al­ties or a com­mu­ni­ty which will send these mur­der­ing punks clear and unequiv­o­cal mes­sages that you will not kill our peo­ple and walk away . There were no short­age of super­vi­so­ry offi­cers on scene. The woman with arms akim­bo is a super­vi­sor . She could have stepped in and stopped the gang behav­ior, she did not. This is par for the course, these thugs have no regard for the black com­mu­ni­ty. Yet they will nev­er face up to a black man, man-to-man. This is not Police work these are crim­i­nals in uniform.