Defenceless

Imagine being arrested and handcuffed in the back of a cop car. What are the feelings that you would have? How safe would you feel? Wouldn't you assume that while defenseless that the police would protect you? 

Now imagine the officer taking the safety off of his gun and aiming it toward you. Imagine hearing a loud ringing before losing all senses of your body. Now go on to imagine this being your brother, your father or cousin that this is happening to. How would you feel to find out that one of your loved ones were shot in the head while in detainment? What if those officers said they did not do it? How would you find justice for your loved one? 

It is unfortunate that a tale similar to this has just recently happened in Minneapolis in the case of Jamar Clark. 

According to The Atlantic Jamar Clark was involved in a domestic violence assault to which the officers responded to. At the crime scene there were witnesses there at the time of Jamar’s arrest and they stated that he did not resist arrest. In fact, he laid there and allowed himself to be taken into custody. Then from the outside looking in on the scene someone reported the officers seemingly making a body shield around Clark’s body before they, the witnesses, heard the ringing sound of a gun shot.

While this is not the exact same circumstance given in the beginning you can see how the two relate. When someone is unarmed and defenseless it is an abomination to take advantage of their weaknesses. In America officers pledge to protect the people and there are incidents such as these that are still on the uprise. The reason that I am speaking of this tale is for those that police brutality only happens to those that rude and ignorant to the ‘people of authority’ or the police as they are most commonly spoken as. It is most unfortunate that even in events such as this that many people would much rather place the blame onto the victim instead of the person that did the horrendous event and make them serve time for the crime that they committed. It is most unfortunate that in this age that there are so many corrupt ‘protectors’ out there.

It pains me that I have actually had to call and make a police report for having been followed 3 counties out of the way of an officer as he followed me home for committing no other crime other than being young, in a suburban town and driving in the color of my skin.

I hope this does not lead you to place hate onto all officers because they aren’t all bad. There are still officers out there that do their job for the good of the order.

However, my lesson in all of this is for you to acknowledge the varying perspectives of people in the world and take into consideration that the focus on these acts of police brutality is in no way a coincidence. It is something for you to learn from and help to remove as we are a united people.

IT'S not A BOMB!

Over the past few post we have been focusing on police brutality against people of the African American race. But now we will take a slight shift. In the next few moments we will covering a story that related more to the discrimination of religion rather that the discrimination of race. However, in order for you to truly have a grasp on the reason why such discrimination is able to exist one must first understand the way in which this idea has blossomed. In the year 2001 there were a series traumatic events that took place in America, we remember this tragic date as 9/11. 9/11/2001 was the day that America began to give a sly eye to most people of the Islamic religion. In fact, I remember being afraid to wear my garbs for fear of being attacked by those who did not follow the same religious path of me.

 Which leads us to today with our friend Ahmed Mohamed, a 14 year old boy that was arrested at school for supposedly having possession of a bomb. Later on it was found out that Ahmed had not made a bomb, but instead he turned his pencil case into a clock.

There have been many discussions on Ahmed's case and the most common of which discusses whether or not he was actually discriminated against. Those that argue for his discrimination makes points about the way in which he was arrested.

Schools are to follow certain protocols when there is a threat that has emerged. The most common of which is a lock down, something that Ahmed's school did not go into when they received word that this child had a "bomb." Also they take into consideration the fact that the school did not call the fire department and also the way that Ahmed was only taken to the principal's desk and not to the police station. The people that argue this side actually claim that the school was only making an example out of Ahmed to strike fear into his heart.

These are the same people that rejoice at the way President Barack Obama made way to come and meet Ahmed to help encourage him to continue with his interest in science. Ahmed has also been seen across many different television shows so that he could tell his story.

However the people that are on the school's side of the argument say that the school has a job to keep all of the students safe and we're just doing what they believed to be the right thing. No matter what side you take in this particular argument, I want you to walk away from this story with a lesson of life. Sure, there may be people out there set to destroy you. But you should never give them that power of satisfaction, at the end life is only what you make of it. So why would you even contemplate allowing someone else to run your life for you?