BLACK YOUTHS ON TODAYS STREETS
Police holding down Eric Garner
By: C. Harrison/Aug 25, 2014
Allow me to first address the killing of Eric Garner which, by all means should not have happened. The truth about this story is I wanted to do a more in depth story but, I am compelled to state my case now.
First of all, all law enforcement officers should be very mindful of how they are arresting people and handcuffing them. If a person say to them the handcuff is tight, loosen it immediately or complain about any ailment do has that suspect ask because that officer does not know that person’s medical history. Intellectually its tricky, possibly hard to do just because one never knows. But the Police department will have to try and come up with solutions.
Officers should be mindful of people with asthma, respiratory ailments heart conditions and eye ailments etca, These ailments must be considered; though difficult it might be; because their (people’s) breathing can stopped in a manner of minutes and a situation can become fatal instantly. The story of Eric Garner is lascivious at best. No officer should take down a suspect by putting his or her hand around that person’s throat; choking that person and once down another officer sit on their stomach. You just basically cut off any air that person might have had. No one can look at that tape and said these officers used good judgment or common sense.
Even officers guidelines and policy stated the factor. Why did it happened the way it pend out we may never know. But we are keeping hope alive.
while we all like the vigilance of police officers in and around the community for safety reason, officers must learn and try to understand the community they serve. One can not take a high school veteran cop, even though he went through the police academy….and put that cops in a community of people who may or may not be smarter or affluent or while not smart but can out smart them. Officer have to understand that while some of these young people do not go to school they are geniuses. Some of them are very smart and is affluent, while other well are just plain dom. Some give trouble because no one is challenging their brain and teachers don’t know what to do with them. So, earlier on they become class clowns, get kicked out of school and move in with the wrong crowd. we all know that story. In other case, black men are out there doing the right things, getting ahead but that stigma of been black does them no good in the eyes of some white officers, who seek to or choose to break the rules set down. When you see that black police officers are also speaking out that these things of driving while black, stop and frisked walk a straight line or pull over just because, we know something is terribly wrong.
Other officers who actually went to college, on the other hand…rarely or seldomly make these kinds of arrest and mistakes. unless they choose to do so. I am also calling for police officers to have at least two years of college experience and actually graduate. Or have some form of military training.
Gunning down black men and young black youths in the streets are beyond niceties. We are now or should be looking for people with problem solving skills inside the police union to put this issue to rest. A Michael Brown or Trayvon and so many others; shouldn”t have happen or be happening. We have come too far as one people to allow this to go on. There are far more important crimes going on under our noses and need just attention.
I have stated before that the NYPD, is like a candy store. people joined for what they can get out of it. Some join to help their communities. Some join to keep up a tradition in their family. Some join to keep an eye on whatever it is they are after. Some join for the environment inside the NYPD; while others join to study and move-on into other federal jobs. take your pick. So, we must understand that not all officers are their to protect us, they are their for the reason they joined. As I mentioned before, its like a candy store. Thus far, we already see that all spectrum have come together to give ideas and hopefully solve this issue.
We care about our officers they are us some of them white or black, and we are them. They also have friends and families to go home to. Its the people in our community, officers and civilians alike, who thinks that they can out think, out do and out run their gimmicks, who we should be worrying about. And those parents who are on drugs who won”t help or don”t care about their children….because other things are far more important to them. In other cases, its parents workload and not enough time; yet in other cases, its the fact that some parent do not get along with their children…… youths, are left to fend for themselves. In some of these cases, parents eyes these youths as men; not as children to be reared and help hence, one of the biggest problem.
In Garner case he was sick and had mouths to feed and when you have a family, they need things.
