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In reply to the discussion: I am not shocked I am just hurt [View all]hollysmom
(5,946 posts)a lot of injustice, but now things are being recorded and in the light of day - how could they. Pretty soon poloce cars with come with signal blockers so you cant record.
I look at this again and again and for the life of me cannot understand how someone could not see it. The shooting of Tamir just makes me cry. Now after thanksgiving when I should be happy going into the holiday season, I am sitting in a funk, not cleaning not doing anything. It is not the land of the free when people are treated this way, it is more of a police state - and if you think they will never come for you - ha! I remember the 60's where whites were nothing special if they and long hair or beards. In NJ a white college kid was taken by the police and stripped and marched into different police stations where they were encouraged to make a brand so they could brand his body with the bent and heated paper clip. If one of the cops did not call for an end of it, I have n idea what would have happened to that kid, it was not like he was poor o black and could not complain (not meaning to be disparaging, just a comment on the historical behavior of police.). As it was, they had to let him go, take him home and he and his parents sued so many cities and the state - now when someone I think when someone complains, they have an accident and die. Especially if they are black. If you live, you can sue, if you die, what are they going to do? There is no on to tell your side.