The Black Community Cannot Expect 35 Year-old Marilyn Mosby To Be It’s Savior

“They will be held accountable” !!!
And cor­rect­ly so.…
That was the answer Marilyn J. Mosby,Maryland state’s attor­ney for Baltimore City give to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, in response to Hayes ques­tion about cops poten­tial­ly not turn­ing up to tes­ti­fy in crim­i­nal cas­es as a means of protests for her deci­sive actions.
As deci­sive and right as Mosby’s retort was, the very notion that that could be a strat­e­gy of pub­lic ser­vants who are paid by the very com­mu­ni­ty to do a job is in of itself a damming indict­ment of the cul­ture of intim­i­da­tion, mur­der, fear and extor­tion which is slow­ly com­ing to light about America’s police departments.

Despite the clear and unequiv­o­cal killing of Eric Garner by Police on New York’s Staten Island, the Prosecutor Daniel Donovan short-cir­cuit­ed the process, lit­er­al­ly pre­vent­ing Cop Daniel Pantaleo from fac­ing crim­i­nal charges, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly giv­ing the appear­ance to the pub­lic that he was doing all he could in the inter­est of justice.
For white men in par­tic­u­lar in America jus­tice has basi­cal­ly been what they say it is. Even as they manip­u­late and dis­tort the process to suit their own ends.
In Maryland as in oth­er states there are dis­parate laws in place which makes it lit­er­al­ly easy for police to break the laws with­out fear of prosecution.
The New York Times reports on a law called the police offi­cer’s bill of rights.
The law is sim­i­lar to at least a dozen across the coun­try, com­mon­ly known as police offi­cers’ bills of rights. But Maryland’s, enact­ed in the ear­ly 1970s, was the first and goes the fur­thest in offer­ing lay­ers of legal pro­tec­tion to police offi­cers. Among its pro­vi­sions is one that gives offi­cers 10 days before they have to talk to investigators.
The law has been a con­cern of Baltimore’s may­or, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, since even before her city was racked by protests after the death of Mr. Gray from spinal cord injuries he sus­tained while in police cus­tody.“When I went down to Annapolis to try to fight for reform, sim­ple reform of the enforce­ment bill of rights, peo­ple looked at me like I had three eyes,” Ms. Rawlings-Blake said at a news con­fer­ence on Thursday, her lat­est of a string of com­plaints about the law this week. Earlier this year, Jill P. Carter, a Democratic law­mak­er in the Maryland House of Delegates, intro­duced a bill that would have elim­i­nat­ed the 10-day rule. The leg­is­la­tion nev­er advanced out of com­mit­tee in the face of intense oppo­si­tion from police unions around the state.

While the state laws pro­tect­ing police offi­cers vary, they gen­er­al­ly allow offi­cers a peri­od of time — from 24 hours to sev­er­al days — before requir­ing them to speak to inves­ti­ga­tors. The leg­is­la­tion also often pro­vides oth­er pro­tec­tions unavail­able to civil­ians, includ­ing lim­it­ing the amount of time offi­cers can be ques­tioned and pro­hibit­ing inves­ti­ga­tors from lying to obtain an admis­sion of wrong­do­ing. In addi­tion to the 10-day rule, the Maryland law also lim­its the time in which a com­plaint may be made against an offi­cer to 90 days from the inci­dent — even if the vic­tim remains hos­pi­tal­ized with severe injuries or is oth­er­wise incapacitated.“The law must both effec­tive­ly respond to police mis­con­duct and pro­tect those ded­i­cat­ed law enforce­ment offi­cers who are unfair­ly tar­get­ed,” said the state­ment from the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association and the Maryland Sheriffs’ Association. “Citizens and oth­er pub­lic employ­ees are enti­tled to due process before the gov­ern­ment takes neg­a­tive action against them, and our law enforce­ment offi­cers deserve noth­ing less.”

But crim­i­nol­o­gists say the spe­cial legal pro­tec­tions for offi­cers erodes pub­lic trust in the police dur­ing a time that pub­lic con­fi­dence in offi­cers has fall­en after a series of deaths of unarmed black men and boys around the country.“These are rights that civil­ians are not enti­tled to,” said David Harris, a law pro­fes­sor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and an expert on police account­abil­i­ty. “Don’t you think that two or 10 days is the per­fect time to get your sto­ry straight, talk to oth­er offi­cers, get the foren­sics results to make sure you don’t make mistakes?”

We agree with that assess­ment. As a for­mer law enforce­ment officer,I find it insult­ing that any­one would sug­gest that a cop could use lethal force on a mem­ber of the pub­lic yet is not oblig­at­ed to speak to any­one for up to 10 days.
Despite the protes­ta­tions of the heads of the afore-named police agen­cies , those spe­cial priv­i­leges ought to be stripped away if they are to engen­der the trust and respect of the com­mu­ni­ties they serve.
We are still going to use the term com­mu­ni­ties they serve, even though from all indi­ca­tions police depart­ments across America are hell-bent on con­trol and dom­i­na­tion of the African-American com­mu­ni­ties they patrol. 

Police chiefs and their sup­port­ers are being ter­ri­bly myopic if they believe that when the anger of the peo­ple erupt they will be safe because they have big guns and armored per­son­nel carriers.
The Politicians who vote to give them unmit­i­gat­ed pow­ers to abuse cit­i­zens are not doing them ser­vice . There will be just so much that peo­ple will take.
On that note police offi­cers must avail them­selves to the real­i­ties that they have no pow­er that was not giv­en them by the people.
That pow­er can get them in seri­ous trou­ble as we now see in Baltimore Maryland.
As it becomes clear­er by the day that white men who con­trol pros­e­cu­tors offices and oth­er posi­tions of pow­er, use and abuse those pow­ers as instru­ments of white supremacy.

African-Americans must seize some of that pow­er, wrench­ing them away from the likes of Daniel Donovan of Staten Island and William Bratton in New York City.
That pow­er must be wrenched from the immoral demons who con­trol pow­er in Tulsa Oklahoma who did not lift a fin­ger to indict the sav­ages who told Eric Harris, “Fuck your breath.” As Harris screams in pain, cry­ing out that he did­n’t do any­thing to deserve being shot, an unnamed deputy replies, “You fuck­ing ran. Shut the fuck up.”
Eric Harris died lat­er as cops knelt on his head even after he was shot and in ter­ri­ble pain.
Whose idea is that of policing?

These are the kinds of things White Supremacists do to peo­ple of col­or in America while wear­ing police uniforms.
If oth­er coun­tries did these things America would be on it’s high horse , pon­tif­i­cat­ing about moral­i­ty, human rights and democ­ra­cy. They would with-hold fund­ing as a pun­ish­ment for what they term “Human rights abuses”>
It’s time for America’s hypocrisy to be exposed for the world to see.
It’s bla­tant hypocrisy to pre­tend that your hands are clean while your agents use your laws to oppress and sup­press eth­nic minori­ties in order to fur­ther the igno­ble prac­tice of racial superiority.

At the same time black Americans can­not look to one 35 ‑year-old woman to be it’s savior.
Celebrating an indict­ment of the cops who con­tributed to the killing of Freddy Gray goes to the heart of how beat-down black peo­ple are.
They cel­e­brate indictments.
Behind the scenes the same struc­ture which cre­at­ed the police mur­der cul­ture is still intact.
Nothing has changed.
When will things change.
Your guess is as good as mine.
It damn sure wont change because blacks ask whites to have a heart and do the right thing.…
It nev­er worked , it wont work.
Change will come to the black com­mu­ni­ty when that com­mu­ni­ty say “this stops today” mean it and rise up like a mighty nation..
Within this nation.…..