Arrested and Confused

Lately, all I’ve seen and heard everywhere is about police brutality, police departments becoming militarized, unarmed people (black and white) being shot dead, and racism. So I’ve decided to know take this time to give my opinion on all of this insane madness happening in our very own country. Take some time to comment on some of the tasteless, uninformed, or plain idiotic thoughts and ideologies I’ve had to listen to for months now. So first I want to say my heart goes out to all the families who have lost someone either cop or civilian. Today we just heard about two cops in New York who were tragically gunned down in their own police car. Whenever someone loses their life or a loved one it’s incredibly tragic and unfortunate. No matter who side of this situation you’re on it is tragic, it’s called human decency and empathy. Right now, we need that more than ever. I’d also like to take to say how much I do respect and thank law enforcement and the insane shit they have to deal with on the regular. I’d also like to show how much I respect PEACEFUL protesters. We live in America where we can peaceful protest our thoughts across and good job on exercising your freedom of speech peacefully. I’d like to first address the extremely ignorant things I’ve literally had to listen to for weeks!

1.       I hate cops! I’ve heard this way before all this madness started and still hear it today. No you don’t dumbass if it wasn’t for the police every night would be the movie The Purge. It totally annoys me when people say this. People say that now but when scary shit is going down the first people they call are the police. So let’s all just stop saying this. Instead, let’s say I hate bad cops.

2.       It’s only black people who riot. This lovely quote came from an old white lady in my religion class this semester. This comment goes to show you just how little knowledge and racist this women is. White people riot too! One of the more recent riots, was in a pumpkin festival in New Hampshire it ended in tear gas and a car flipped over. Not to mention all the times sports teams have won or lost. Seriously people!

3.       All cops are racist/bad. Another extremely dumb statement I’ve also heard. Not all cops are racist/bad the majority are good decent human beings just trying to do the right things in a crazy world.

4.       Well if black guys stopped dressing like thugs police will stop treating them like thugs.  It should not matter how someone dresses, who they hang out with, or what they are doing. What should matter and (the only thing that should matter) is if they are breaking the law! That’s it!

5.       Why don’t we ever talk about black on black violence, instead we talk about police on black violence? Excellent question why don’t we? Oh that’s right because we never do hear about it when someone does. NAACP is constantly working with black communities to reduce violence within violent and predominately black communities. The better question is why we (as in a society as a whole) are not talking about reducing violence everywhere. Secondly, there is a big difference between police beating/killing someone and civilians beating the crap out of each other/ killing one another. The difference being is cops are supposed to uphold the law and not act like some punk one the street gunning down or beating the crap out of someone who is unarmed/weaker than them. We pay police to protect us not shoot us down. This kind of brutality luckily is being caught on tape but still many times police are able to still get away with it.