It Is Time We Treat Police Brutality as a National Crisis

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7. I'd like to add this thought to the discussion -

Currently we are seeing so much of the monetary distribution occurring in one direction only, and so much of what the police are about is protecting "wealth." This means that all of us are under fire, not just people of color.

When Scott came back from Iraq, only to be almost killed by Oakland Calif police, while attending an Occupy meeting, the police were indifferent to his skin color.

Several years ago, at the age of 55, I was told by a police officer who had pulled me over that he was thinking of shooting me. What had he pulled me over for? I was going 57 miles an hour in a 55 mph zone!

About two years ago, I opened the local newspaper to see this officer's name in the headlines. He had been arrested for pedophilia, as he had been forcing himself on a local 14 year old girl.

He was hispanic; I am a white woman and so was the young lady in question.

The police in this nation are fugging nuts. They are poorly screened, and encouraged by all of their training to believe that at any moment someone might hurt them.

And they are told repeatedly by the CO's that they are to consider their safety and their lives before anyone else's! That philosophy is behind so much of this, including the tragic shooting by police rifle of a man out watering a neighbor's yard, in a decent neighborhood in Southern Calif. The police interpreted the hose nozzle that was being used as a gun, and so with no questions asked, shot him from their patrol car while they drove by. His body had been impacted by six heavy duty bullets.

The man happened to be white.