Ok, I understand that cops screw up. That there are bad cops. Not all cops are bad. Just like not all black people are criminals. However, I feel like there is a bigger problem here. When did it come to a point where if a group of people aren't happy about a problem they create a bigger one? Had they peacefully protested they would have had so much support from the world. Now that they are rioting, the world just is looking at oh look at this guy. Since 2007 he has been arrested a bunch of times for dealing drugs, robbery and other crimes. He was a criminal. I have seen Facebook posts that state the only good criminal is a dead criminal. I have seen people posting photos saying that in white neighborhoods they are stuffing black trash bags to look like bodies and hanging them from trees. I don't know if this is true or not, I don't live in Baltimore.
Now before you say Oh you are white you just don't get it. No, I do get it. A man died while in police custody. And that is horrible. If the police officers were negligent, they definitely should be arrested and charged. I absolutely agree. However, right now, the police departments can't even investigate this. They have all hands dealing with a riot. They are arresting people for arson to a community building that was being built to give people a place to go. They are arresting people and trying to protect stores from being burned and robbed. There can't be a fair review of the incident as long as people are overburdening the system with other crime.
I can't sit back and say the police did anything wrong. I wasn't there. But what I do know is that violence for violence is NOT the answer. I am so proud of that mom who went down and grabbed her son out of the crowd. More parents need to be that active in their kids lives. Can you imagine if parents got out of the mentality they are in. Low income parents teach their kids that is all there is. Or they don't try to better their kids lives.
I am tired of hearing my friends of other races saying oh when I go to school I get told I talk to white? You talk to white? What is talking too white? There is too much black on black racism and black on black violence. I recently watched a documentary about dark girls. I was shocked to see how the tone of her skin affected her life. I just had no idea how if you are too 'dark skinned' you are less beautiful to some people in your own race. I think everyone can be beautiful and within your own race you should not be ostracized. I had a friend who was from India who told me about how in his country he was told he was too dark and was treated poorly like a second class citizen even by his parents. I was shocked.
Ultimately the problems are larger than a black guy who has a history of fighting police and is a criminal. How many black police officers have shot a white man and you don't see this outrage. If the cops were wrong let the police do their job and investigate and charge them. Just because the cops were white doesn't make them racist and doesn't mean they did anything wrong.
Why can't we just be Americans. Why do we have to be any color. Why can't we say this prisoner died in police custody. Why. Lets investigate this. No criminal deserves to die that way. I absolutely agree. 5 days ago the police commissioner said that it is clear the police officers did not get him medical attention. No one is denying that someone screwed up. They are just trying to make sure they figure out exactly who it was an punish that person.....so please explain why the riots.
I also saw a young gentleman who was serving in our us military. He was so specific and he told the truth. People like Al Sharpton and others are NOT looking out for the black community. They are looking out for themselves. People like Al Sharpton live in expensive houses, owe millions to the IRS and don't pay it and sit in a posh hotel and eat caviar while the city burns. They are NO Martin Luther King. I am sure MLK is turning in his grave over this violence with circumvents everything he stood for. This soldier stated that when black people overlook black on black violence it is racist when they only stand up against when a white person does it. Just like if anyone says that it is only black people rioting..or that the people in the black community do not care about the young man who was killed.
The looters and people creating the violence for the most part are not people who are upset by the death of the young man who was in police custody. They are people who, like in Saint Louis, saw an opportunity to travel there and create an issue. They are criminal elements who want to cause violence. Within a group it creates a group frenzy. People who probably normally would have just protested, are now burning buildings.
But while Baltimore burns....Nepal searches for people who are alive in a natural disaster and they are not getting help because everyone is talking about Baltimore. Sad isn't it. Priorities. Let the police handle the police officers who were wrong. They have already admitted it. The man is already dead. Nothing you can do by burning down the city can change that. It is ridiculous. Please just stop already.
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