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.