"Threaten me or my family and I will use my God given and law appointed duty to kill you"

[Blue_Tires]

30. An Open Letter to San Jose Police Officer Phillip White

What about black people stating that their lives matter inspires you to reach for your firearm? Is it our unwillingness to be irrelevant? Our want and yearning to be free and heard? Is it our newfound strength in loving ourselves so threatening that your only response is to threaten our lives and our education? Philiip, just the other day you stated that our sisters at Cal Berkeley should not speak up about their right to live like any other American due to possible protests from tax paying cops. I guess when a human is taxed with having our skin complexion, one is only useful to you while we are on some sort of court or field, playing a jester, or singing…our lives are just here for your convenience, is that correct?

Sorry to disappoint you, White, but I for one do not have any desire to live to entertain you. My life does matter, and it is not in contingency with my appeasing you. Or your racist cop friends. The simple fact that tweeting a worldwide threat to those who are fighting for their right to live seemed like a proper response tells me that I might find a few civilian complaints on your record. How many “thugs” have you roughed up in your day? Tell me, was the crime “walking down the street while homeless”, or were there just too many black and brown people together at one time? Believe it or not, I know cops like you. I’ve watched them patrol the streets, kick little kids off of the bus because they felt like it, stand baffled when someone is not afraid of them. We have to pass the attitude test, right? Well, we’re sick of your attitude test. We’re sick of being tried after our murder. We’re sick of our lives being in jeopardy due to your lack of training, sociological stability, and distaste for our complexion.

Only crooked, distasteful and morally robbed police officers feel as if this is a war on cops. Contrary to your guilt ridden beliefs, this is not about revenge. This is about creating a safer environment, where you, Philip, will not be able to continue under the premise of protecting and serving our community while threatening your citizens who pay your salary because you don’t like how they practice their first amendment. And before you bring up looting and rioting, be sure to reflect on the jokes you tweeted about a “disco inferno”; be sure to separate the peaceful protesters who are arrested and the looters who magically have not been arrested. Your comments are distasteful, disgraceful, and a hindrance to your brothers in blue. As naïve as I would like to be, I know there are many in your position who share your sentiments; and they too should not be allowed to protect and serve with prejudice.

Philip White, it stops now. You will be our poster child of all things that we fight to change. Police brutality will stop now. The selection of who to protect and serve and who to demonize will stop now. The revolution will continue. It has not been televised; but as you have learned today, Philip, it will be tweeted.

http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/articles/2014/12/14/open-letter-san-jose-police-officer-phillip-white-cop-who-threatened-protesters-and-mocked-icantbreathe