A video of supposed police brutality was posted on Reddit today.
So many missing details! Honestly the story doesn't make much sense to me.
First this is an embarrassing video for everyone involved. The occupants of the house come off as cowards for not engaging with the cops immediately.
My impression? They were trying to lawyer their way out of trouble.
Smile and take your medicine, somethings cannot be avoided.
The cops were very unprofessional and made this situation way more volatile then it needed to be.
Cant argue that.
My main unanswered question is what job the cops were tasked to perform at the home.
One thing I always think when dealing with police is that they are simply a cog in a machine that is fueled by political lust for power and corporate greed.
If that is what our discussion is about, than great! We need to talk more about this broken system as a whole. Without doing a search for it I do believe we have the largest imprisoned population in the world. If not the largest then near the top. As much as it seems we would like to cry unfair it is us, as a civilization, which have allowed this to happen and are doing very little to fix.
Mostly these men are just trying to keep a low paying dangerous job one in which they are not given the freedom to interpret the law.
Like a bullet fired from a gun they can only go were aimed, but unlike a bullet they are human with the fragility this state provides.
I am positive they, how ever many that were there, didn't show up just to harass this woman. I am positive she broke some kind of law and has a negative history with the Dekalb court system.
Regardless, there is a video, that was not deleted and that now a large percentage of population has witnessed. In this video one can see the wrong way to act when society knocks on your door and asks that you pay for past ill-deeds. Whether those deeds were committed or not everyone gets their day in court and we all have a responsibility to respect the system we have in place, until we vote a new one into power.
We live in the most nonviolent time in the history of the human race. I feel safe. I dodge no bullets. no cars explode outside my door. I can say whats on my mind.
We are given no choices on election day that will chance the country we live in to any drastic fashion. Change is slow in coming, but if change came what exactly would we want? More freedom? Would we want people who break the law to get away with it? Why should we allow more privileges to criminals? If I had done no wrong and a gaggle of cops knocked on my door I would answer and ask, "whats up?" If they want to place me in handcuffs, so be it. If they want to take me to jail, I will go to jail.
If I am innocent I will be freed.
I have never answered for a crime that I didn't commit.
Confucius said, "do unto others as you would wish them to do on to you."
Watch the video again, the occupants of the house played with fire and got burned.
