Young Boy Shot to Death by Cop Moments After Sitting Down to Watch a Movie in His Home

[MrScorpio]

148. It's something like this that forces me to say out loud, what I really think about the police...

That my own innate sense of self-preservation is quite compelling enough for me to regard the police as nothing more than a gang of violent and self-entitled bullies who are so cowardly that, if they'd use deadly force at the drop of a hat on a five pound dog, my own safety is at risk anytime they're within eyesight. The first rule would be to automatically regard them as unrepentant liars and completely untrustworthy, only because it's quite clear that unless there's compelling video and audio evidence available to me, they'd try to get away with anything and most probably would.

That is, unless they could prove themselves otherwise.

But most of all, I should have absolutely nothing to do with them, unless it's under the most direst of circumstances. And even then, I don't want anything to do with them.

To anyone who would respond with something like, "Just wait until you're in trouble and needed help and see if you'll feel the same way about the police then," my response is this: The police are not my friends, they have never been my friends, and as a Black man living in America, I seriously doubt if any of them ever want to be my friend. These are people who are immersed in the worst of human nature, day in and day out, and most of them have their own humanity ruined by that experience. So no, I don't want to invite any armed, arrogant and potentially violent person into my own life.

My belief is that any cop's first instinct is to come up with some half-assed reason (or no reason at all) to either beat the shit out of you over and/or find something to arrest you for, as simply the next stage after their penchant for arbitrary harassment. I'm absolutely certain that many a cop regard that sort of behavior as a sport that they are entitled to enjoy.

You have no right, including the right to your own life, that no cop is bound to respect, under just about any circumstance that they deem available.

Again, that's why I want nothing to do with cops… Ever. I care way more about myself than they'd ever would.