Earlier today, I walked outside my business place, and as is customary, there were blue & red flashing police lights; someone pulled over. In the city of Poughkeepsie, where my business is situated, I am almost at the end of the city police’s jurisdiction and where the Town police area begins. They actually interlock, but the city cops are generally less bothersome of the residents.
On the other hand, the town uses the poor black residents of the City as a feeding tree. Town cops position themselves at the city’s edge on the upper main, where they terrorize residents entering and leaving the city. The majority of the residents are black.
In addition to the city and Town, there are the state police and the Sheriff’s department, all four agencies for one area. In fairness to the Sheriff’s deputies, they are hardly around the city harassing residents; the terror comes from the Town of Poughkeepsie Police, where they become parasites to the black residents to fund their overtime.
A few minutes after I observed them, it started to rain, and the power went out in some sections of the block, leaving traffic lights knocked out. As I headed home, I realized that the traffic lights were out further up the block at three other major intersections, posing a challenge for motorists.
As you may have imagined, there was not a single cop or cop-car for the four agencies, attending to ensuring the safety of motorists and pedestrians alike.
It is important to include that it was no longer raining, so it had grown darker, which made it even more rational that a cop-cruiser with flashing lights would have been posted at the traffic lights to ensure the safety of the public who pays their salaries and lucrative benefits.
It kind of put to lie the idea that cops are there to protect and serve. It seems to me they are there to rip and run.
THEN THERE WAS THIS
And then there was this recent incident in which a young man was murdered by the police even after they had all of the time in the world to take cover and ensure that they are protected. They ended up doing what they like to do, kill.
As long as society glorifies and endorses this barbarism, we are all worse off for it.
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So they killed the guy, and you are sure to know what comes next, the standard drivel; according to News 4, DC Police officers in Maryland fatally shot a 21-year-old outside a McDonald’s restaurant after an “armed standoff,” the Montgomery County Police Department said in a news release Saturday.
The shooting took place Friday night after police said officers responded to a call about a customer who had ordered food but was refusing to move through the drive-thru lane at the McDonald’s in Gaithersburg, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from Washington.
Once an officer spotted a handgun on the front passenger seat of the man’s car, backup was called, police said. Additional officers secured the area and evacuated McDonald’s staff.
According to police, an “armed standoff” ensued, during which officers tried negotiating with the driver for about 30 minutes.
“Circumstances that are still under investigation led to officers firing their weapons, and the driver was shot,” the news release said.
Officers rendered aid to the driver until he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The officers involved are on standard administrative leave.
Sure, we know they get paid leave to relax after they commit these state-sanctioned executions, and that’s it.
What kind of country sanctions this kind of barbarism as standard behavior and calls itself a civilized society?
According to the murdered 21-year-old’s dad, his son, Ryan Leroux, was murdered. He had just lost his grandmother, his job, his longtime girlfriend, living out of his car, and was having a mental breakdown.
He challenges the police version of events that claimed that Leroux lifted a gun in his hands, so they fired a barrage of shots ending his life.
See link here https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/video-shows-moments-montgomery-police-killed-ryan-leroux-gaithersburg-mcdonalds/2746138/
The father said there was no reason to murder his son. That is the understatement of the decade. When questioned by journalists as to whether he at any time saw a weapon in mister Leroux’s hands, the chief said no.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.