Discussion for article #235734
…a neighborhood littered with broken glass, flattened aluminum cans and other debris.
A day like any other day?
Except for riots I mean.
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Years of neglect of neighborhoods and of police brutality and $5 million in payouts to keep the victims quiet combined with frustration of the disenfranchised leads to this.
It is not helpful that gangs were rallied to protect the people with the police having no communication . This is not the first death in the back of a police van in Baltimore. Communication and having cops that are invested in the communities…to protect the citizens and the police! .Is a start!
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Gray was arrested on April 12 after making eye contact with officers and then running away,
So is making eye contact with the police and then running a misdemeanor or a felony in Baltimore? I’m assuming it must be a felony given it is apparently a capital offense.
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People will forget in a few weeks and nothing will change.
“Gray was arrested on April 12 after making eye contact with officers …”
How uppity can you get? Didn’t he know that he was supposed to keep his eyes downcast when in the presence of his superiors? Typical racial profiling. He looked at me and ran so he must be evil and must be taken down. Maybe he just knew how brutal this police force is.
But I’m surprised at the lack of outcry about the lack of concern for their victim’s pain and injury. In all the latest outrageous cases of police brutality what is really telling about their attitudes toward their citizens is the total lack of effort to tend to the wounds they inflicted. In some cases they have even made fun of or denigrated their pain: “Fuck your breathing” I believe one officer said of his dying victim. Yes, death is the ultimate horror, but the real horror for the citizens being “served” by these thugs is the thugs everyday, casual disregard for them as human beings.
This violence will reinforce stereotype for the right wing and contribute to the evolving police state with open season on black people. It undoes MLK’s nonviolent protests, terribly.
The actions of the police should be the focus but mainly the actions of the police leading to the brutal death of an innocent young Black man. This is the cause of it all. It must be the focus; it must be dealt with harshly; nothing stops until police harrassment resulting in the deaths of young Black men is addressed. It must be part of the discussion of the riots and is a far greater moral evil.
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