… No matter how big … no matter what color … no matter what gender … no matter what faith … A person’s a person!
My heart is with the family and friends of George Floyd today. Sadly another case of police abusing their power, resulting in a fatality! For those of you who don’t know the story, George was accused of trying to pass off a counterfeit bill at a store. The store owner called the police and the store owner’s son said that George did not resist arrest, and he was not armed! 4 cops were at the scene. One cop had him on his stomach on the ground and his knees planted on the the guy’s neck. He told the cop he couldn’t breathe, to please take his knees off of him. The cop didn’t and within minutes George passed out and died. All of it was caught on video.
Police are supposed to uphold the law and protect its citizens! Today family and friends mourn because police once again did not do that! These incidents against black people by police are becoming far too frequent and its an outrage!! Since when have we gone back in time?? ALL lives matter!!
Makes me think of the movie “Mississippi Burning”. That was so long ago and yet nothing appears to have changed.
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I heard of tbat movie but never saw it. Hard for me to watch movies like that, for it just makes me so mad and sad at the ignorance of people!
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Did you ever see the mini-series Roots? I remember my parents watching it. It was about slavery.
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Re Roots … never wanted to see it. I had read the book and thought the movie would screw it up for me.. It’s an excellent book.
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Understsnd that! For that usually is the case when reading a book and then seeing the movie.
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Watching the video, I didn’t understand why he couldn’t be handcuffed while they had him on the ground. Holding that knee on his neck seemed unnecessary. Especially for five long minutes. The cops have been fired, but if they had been anyone else, they’d be in jail now.
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Exactly my thoughts!
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An atrocity! How can men do this against another man? A human being. I am so totally disgusted.
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Totally agree! Its sickening!
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It’s so sad and disheartening and disgusting to watch that video; how could one human treat another human like that?
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That’s a question that continually boggles my mind! There have been so many ways that humans have been inhumane to each other and I just don’t get it!!
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I don’t get it either, but it seems like it’s always been there, and I am not optimistic that it will go away…
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I spent 27 years of my life being a cop. We never resorted to tactics like that. I watched this coming about as I was retiring in 1997. Agencies gearing up in military gear, hiring returning veterans from the current conflicts. With them, came the new “techniques” and ideas.
Gone are the Police. Replaced by soldiers, in disguise. The attitude comes with the battle outfits they are wearing.
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So sad!
Thank you for the time you served as a cop in protecting and helping citizens! I know that there are a lot of good cops out there, in spite of the bad ones we hear about!
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Hey! Really a wonderful article. I also wrote my piece of mind on a similar topic. Do give it a read, hope you will like it.
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Thanks and will take a look.
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