In the unfortunate case that is police brutality, there is always one main defense: "Not all cops are like this, it was just one bad guy."
To quote Chris Rock:
"Bad apple? That’s a lovely name for murderer. That almost sounds nice. I’ve had a bad apple. It was tart, but it didn’t choke me out. Here’s the thing. I know being a cop is hard. I know that shit’s dangerous. I know it is, okay? But some jobs can’t have bad apples."
"Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like … pilots. Ya know, American Airlines can’t be like, 'Most of our pilots like to land. We just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains. Please bear with us."
The main goal for the police force is to "protect and serve" but nowadays that simple term seems like nothing more than a joke. For what seems like an eternity, police officers have been abusing their power to terrorize and dominate innocent minorities and for what? Simply existing.
I know for a fact the police academy teaches future officers multiple ways to subdue criminals. The gun on their waists should be used as a last resort and even then it should never be used to kill.
The worst part of it all is that these horrifying situations always end the exact same way: The evil racist officers always end up going free. As a matter of fact, some of them don't even go to trial. The Justice System has shown itself to be an incredibly biased and unfair system with no signs of it ever improving.
It's all crazy, shocking, and very much sad.
No parent should ever have to outlive their child.
No parent should ever know the feeling of losing a child, especially to something as ugly as racism.
It's a sickness. It's a disease.
A plague on this world that's long overstayed it's welcome.
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