Yes, this is the Front Page photo on Huff Post right now, but it needs to be seen and studied by every American. There more I study it, the more my blood boils. When did it become okay for multiple officers, dressed for war, to aim assault rifles at unarmed civilians who pose no threat? Even if they pose a non-lethal threat, being unarmed, do the police have cause to respond with lethal force?
Who cleared this with the public, this tactic of heavy weapons and implied instant death? Do we not have a say in how our law enforcement officers conduct themselves? Have we not learned the failure of shock and awe? Is there a sentient being on the planet who does not agree these are the actions that breed distrust, hate and eventually armed resistance? You dare to ask us to trust authority when you refuse to treat the public with decency and dignity? How did these tactics work for us overseas? Anyone think this assault on the public on the home front at the ends of our driveways will yield any better result?
As a culture, we've lost all sense of proportion. We are insane. We answer peddling of "loosies" with death. We answer retreat with shots to the back, and 4 more point blank for good measure, and then get left on the street in the heat of summer while the flies congregate and the blood hardens on the asphalt. Jump a turnstile at a train station? Get shot. Are you a 94 year old infirm veteran waving a steak knife at a cop as you sit in a chair in a nursing home? Take two in the chest. Link arms on the ground and sing in non-violent protest? Get kicked, pepper sprayed, get shot in the face with a bean bag cannon at point blank range.
once more in case some missed it "BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT A MENACE TO SOCIETY, SOCIETY IS A MENACE TO BLACK PEOPLE". they want to take the country back well how ignorant is that some parts of the country never left "HBACK" it's always been their I think it is showing itself with impunity now since we elected the first African American Pres.
they say this is the richest and best country in the world for who the haters are so busy hating they can't do the peoples business or don't want to because those they hate on might profit by it, certainly not those that are the hated ones, but those who they don't hate supposedly, are caught in the web so they too don't profit. looks like those at the top are the only benefactors of a country they don't support pass cheap labor and no taxes a climate they created just for themselves. so back to what?
You bastards, you don't own our streets. We owe you no obedience. We put the food on the table of your families. You serve at our pleasure. This needs to end.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite action. Newton's Law, damn it. Basic physics. See that sentiment scrawled on the mailbox in that image? If this is what law enforcement has become, if this is the default response to its own crimes, then, yeah, I agree
I'm sure those sentiments have been expressed before and still they fall on deaf ears, Pres. hit it on the head, "WE ARE THE CHANGE WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR", most of us ignored it or don't know it if you didn't now you do show up vote Nov. 4th because if we don't it ain't coming.
