If you keep treating human beings like Freddie Gray and continually say "The police did nothing wrong" like people have no common sense Baltimore and other cities will happen. Let me first say when I say "police" I strictly mean the police who handled Freddie Gray and not the entire Baltimore Police Department. I know too many members of police enforcement who are a cut above in doing their jobs. I can't stress enough the things that cannot be proven, in cases like Gray's, because there's usually only one testimony of an incident that involved two people. And sadly the victims are not here to speak on the incidents. Isn't it natural to wonder what kind of "medical emergencies arose" (the police's words) that would result in the HANDCUFFED Freddie Gray having an 80% severed spine? If it were from the van ride why didn't the police officers suffer any injuries? An 80% severed spine can only come from serious force (be it man made or accident). So what could a HANDCUFFED Gray do like that to severe 80% of his spine? It doesn't add up but I've recently read an article showing people can be injured in a police van, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-rough-ride-and-police-culture/391538/. So it is a real thing. Now as the article reads there are instances of police not securing prisoners in seat belts (as in Freddie Gray's case) and drivers intentionally driving rough to intentionally hurt prisoners in the police vans. For a moment, I ask people for a moment to look past the rioting and see the absurdity of Freddie Gray's death, which has briefly turned Baltimore into Pompeii. Again, it takes real force to severe spines and if the police van ride did this to Gray why weren't the police officers injured like Gray?
In the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, "he tried to take the officer's weapon". With the adverse history of black people and the police, in what world does a black man try to reach for a police officer's gun unless it's a threat to his person or life? Michael Brown has no power over police. As a matter of fact, he has just stolen cigars from a convenience store. Michael Brown at this point should want nothing to do with authorities and wants to make this engagement of the police quick. Why didn't Michael Brown run, as in the case of Freddie Gray, who merely ran on eye contact of the police?Again Brown at this point, a criminal with stolen cigars on his person. Why didn't he just run as well? Officer Wilson couldn't get out of his squad quicker than Brown could have ran and ducked away. And no weed in the world make Brown do that. Again, WHY would Michael Brown think he could reach into a car, unfasten his sidearm and then take it? He's gotta be faster than The Flash to do that.
People keep hearing sound blurbs, reading click bait and not seeing what just doesn't make sense due to a two sided media, each presenting their angle and not the truth. Now every cop out there isn't trying to play Victoria Mackey on every black male on the street but every black male on the street doesn't deserve to be treated like a point man for a coke and illegal gun ring.
There is NO justifying the actions taking place in Baltimore because no one can hear your truths through wanton destruction and mayhem. Housing for elders have been lost to these fires for which there is no justification or sympathy for the guilty parties. So if you're found guilty of destroying property or injuring someone you must deal with the consequences of your actions. Now actions do speak louder than words but NO ONE can hear the words of these people because of their criminal (that is what they are no matter what the cause) actions. But I must concede that there comes a point where people will say "we're not stupid and stop talking to us like we are". The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and getting the same result and I guess people are feeling the marches are coming up empty on results. And when the powers that be won't concede to common sense maybe the powers that be will concede to uncommon actions.
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