The long past
due outcry over police misconduct, brutality and outright murder has never been
about neither Michael Brown, Eric Garner nor Tamir Rice in specific. The
current protests against police abuse and police state in our country has been
brewing ever since the Rodney King beating in 1992 and has steadily built up
pressure with the increased use of video, cell phone and surveillance cameras
which clearly and undisputedly shows everyone who chooses to see the enormity
of injustices and crimes committed against the American people, by the
governments police state forces. 9/11 and the Patriot Acts have seriously
stepped up the intensity and violence of today’s police state.
There are
virtually hundreds of thousands free videos alone on YouTube documenting crimes
and violations committed by the police forces. All one has to do is look and
watch. It is utterly impossible for any rational person to excuse most of those
crimes caught on video, unless one simply has nefarious intentions of covering
up and with that enabling police corruption.
Some
people still like to hold on to the old saying there are just some bad cops
admits all the good cops, and that most cops are really good cops. Just watch
the few videos posted in this commentary, and you can easily see
that those incidents are not isolated nor committed by just a few cops without
the help or cover of other cops who make themselves accomplice to the crimes by
sheltering and protecting the perpetrator. Until the majority of the cops are
willing and do actually turn in the criminal cops, there are no more good cops.
While there
was a time when those atrocities were committed mainly in the minority
communities, in particular the black community, the minority communities are no
longer the exceptions and the threat of police brutality and misconduct has
engulfed the entire nation regardless of race, sex, age, social status etc.
although the black community still bears the brunt of it. Today however, it is
a problem which affects each and every one of us.
Slowly even
some of the cop apologists are starting to worry and now calling for better
training with cultural awareness of the police forces. But when watching some
of these presented video evidence for which each there are thousands of cases
which were never even caught on video, one must ask themselves the unavoidable
question of what good improved training and cultural awareness is, as most
crimes committed by the police forces are so clearly against human, individual
and constitutional right as well as any morality and compassion, that it is no
longer possible for these perpetrator to claim they did not know any better.
The problem
is that the police forces know a lot better than that, ever since they grew up as kids, having been
taught better by parents and school. But still commit these crimes simply
because they know they can get away with it. Our corrupt judicial and
prosecutorial system and the leadership of the police forces assure the
criminals a free pass and protect them from any consequences.
Better
training and cultural awareness has is great and has its place, but to put an
end to judicial, prosecutorial, police and even political corruption, laws and
procedures need to be changed.
Our justice
system needs to be overhauled and judicial and prosecutorial immunity done away
with. Independent citizen commissions with judicial and prosecutorial powers
need to be placed in charge of police misconduct investigations. The currently
utterly worthless concept of Grand Juries must be revamp so it can serve the
people and not the corrupt government.
Elected and
sworn in officials and public servants must be held to higher standards and
sentenced accordingly and harsher than their civilian counter parts.
There is no
other way around it, unless you want to wait until the oppressed people take up
arms, like in the French Revolution, and give the horrible term of “lynching” a
new meaning.
