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epiphiny43 -> RE: Cops lives don't matter. (5/12/2015 3:47:06 AM)
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Getting excited and making claims about the media does nothing to change that it's suddenly a different world, where everyone has portable video cams and they now use them to document what were ignored claims in minority or low income communities where police misconduct was routine and if not established policy, unofficial group behavior, ignored by supervisors and local prosecutors as well as media. Nothing new here, it's happening all over the world and has been going on in the US for generations to now centuries.
In defense, departments are moving to documenting each beat officer's surroundings and behavior. Those representatives of the larger society will have to relearn old habits and 'good ol' boy' agreements to ignore or lie about LEO violence or participate in it.
During the days of Freedom Marches, some wise man observed: "If you want to keep a man in the gutter, part of you has to stay there with him to hold him down." We are reaping that whirlwind of violence as a new generation tries to rise against the violence of racism and capitalism against the exploited and disregarded. Using the tools they see at hand, it's going to be a mess before anything gets better.
None of which excuses those trashing their own communities by BBWB (Behaving Badly While Black) pretending they are revolting against a white community that they aren't even close to.
A greater culture that glorifies violence in so many forms (Drones, WWF, NFL, Sniper heros, general Hollywood ultra violent drama, first person shooter games, etc.) can't expect much different when parts of the culture are provoked, agitated and given opportunities to exploit events for personal gain and getting attention.
I think enough good people in both local communities and in the organizations keeping cities working will respond in creative ways to find new answers and ways of working together. Many police departments are catching up if not ahead of the curve. The many community leaders marching for mature responses to the situation in Baltimore are a great example of what must happen to change basic attitudes and practices. Sad that much of the infotainment industry (WHOLLY owned and lead by the ultra wealthy) chose to ignore these efforts. People working to polarize everyone (in the British ultimate insult) 'aren't being helpful'. This thread's title is a poster child for people throwing gas on a fire and then blaming others for lighting it.
Rev. King understood you can't create a peaceful community by violence. A lesson that needs repeating every generation. Repression likewise never really creates the safety those with present advantage think it will, paranoia and hate kill their souls. Those who don't like what's happening now have to look inside their souls as much as to outside forces if they want anything to change. Marx and Lenin and Trotsky were wrong, methods ARE the ends. Stalin was their natural child, not the greater good of mankind they envisioned. Current US fear politics are no different at the core.
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