A
black judge responds to Josh Marshall on the recent publicity over police violence towards people of color.
We supporters don’t “miss” the “deep wells of support and trust” police
have in the majority population. They have always had such support and
trust. It just doesn’t matter here. What you seem to miss is that the
reason that such support and trust exists is due to the fact that what
they are protecting the majority population from, in the minds of far
too many in that population, is us!
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I have seen the disparity in criminal charges and sentencing up close
and personal. I have seen the biased perceptions of our police result in
imprisonment, beatings, mistreatment and yes, even death. But it is not
only the overt physical violence that minorities are subjected to, it
is the presumption of guilt that we confront on a daily basis.
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But listen to the defenders of the police in these latest cases… do you
really want to live in the world they are promoting? One where you must
immediately acquiesce to any request/order give by anyone in a uniform,
without question or complaint… under penalty of death if you don’t
comply, or comply too slowly for them? Do you really mean to give people
in uniform the power to kill, maim, imprison any person simply because
they questioned why they were being confronted or resisted rough
treatment? Is the uniformed officers word to be deemed absolute, without
recourse… and his/her power to punish to be deemed limitless?
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So, we don’t miss the support and trust police have in the majority
population… t’was always thus… we just don’t care to let that support
and trust kill more of our sons and daughters. We are tired of letting
their subjective “fears” be reason enough to make us bury another child.
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