Backtracking On Police Reform Will Result In Even Greater Uprisings…

I guess the Minneapolis city coun­cil is as fed up as the pro­tes­tors are, at what that police depart­ment has become. Even after that police depart­ment set the entire world on fire with its pub­lic lynch­ing of George Floyd, [offi­cers] in that depart­ment seem not to care that the anger is direct­ed at them.
Either they do not care because they believe that they are lords and mas­ters over the peo­ple, or they do not give a damn what any­one says.

It is shock­ing, they lynch a mem­ber of the com­mu­ni­ty and when the upris­ing start­ed they bru­tal­ize cit­i­zens who were demon­strat­ing against.
They arrest­ed a CNN jour­nal­ist and his crew while they were report­ing on live Television for absolute­ly no rea­son. In all fair­ness, the Minneapolis police are not alone in the abuse.
From Pacific to Atlantic and all places in between, as Americans black white and brown rose up to reg­is­ter their dis­gust at police abuse and racism in the soci­ety, so too did the police rise up with egre­gious acts of bru­tal­i­ty and disrespect.

In upstate Buffalo New York, two of those thugs pushed a 75-year old man to the ground almost killing him. The two were arrest­ed and charged and are fac­ing felony charges. None of the cops helped the man as he lay there bleed­ing. They will remain sus­pend­ed pend­ing tri­al.
In Atlanta, Georgia, six offi­cers were booked on crim­i­nal charges while two of the six were fired for bru­tal­ly attack­ing two col­lege stu­dents.
The young cou­ple was dri­ving through a protest when they were set upon and bru­tal­ly extract­ed from their car, as one offi­cer sum­mar­i­ly engaged in smash­ing the win­dows out of the vehicle.

In New York, well they are beyond redemp­tion, they just con­tin­ued right along with the beat­ings, bru­tal­iz­ing, and com­mit­ting all kinds of atroc­i­ties against demon­stra­tors, even the most peace­ful demon­stra­tors were not spared their ven­om.
They could be heard on their scan­ner encour­ag­ing oth­ers to dri­ve over inno­cent pro­tes­tors with their SUVs.
In all of the acts of police rage and vio­lent riots, one thing caught my eye & absolute­ly astound­ed me. It was [police offi­cers] van­dal­iz­ing cars in the city of Minneapolis by punc­tur­ing all of the tires on one par­tic­u­lar street. sev­er­al of the cars belonged to jour­nal­ists from out of town who rent­ed them to get around.
Other cars were the prop­er­ty of res­i­dents, yet the police that the peo­ple pay to pro­tect their lives and prop­er­ty, set upon their vehi­cles, and arbi­trar­i­ly set about dam­ag­ing them.
It was shock­ing as one jour­nal­ist affirmed that he had ver­i­fi­able infor­ma­tion that it was, in fact, police offi­cers who dam­aged his car and oth­ers leav­ing him strand­ed after com­plet­ing his assignment.

It is not too dif­fi­cult to under­stand how this kind of raw police aggres­sion could be unleashed in the coun­try. On peo­ple of col­or and on the media over the last three-plus or so years.
These events do not even begin to scratch the sur­face but they have been enough to open the eyes of many.
The police have been told not to be nice to cit­i­zens and the media has been made out to be the ene­my of the peo­ple.
And now the lit­tle tyrant at the head of the NYPD PBA is out cry­ing about how they are treat­ed. No apolo­gies for the way the NYPD has treat­ed peo­ple of col­or for decades and decades.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
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