{"article":{"id":17741,"heading":"Gee, you think we should discuss police brutality soon?","author":"marco","created":"2002-07-13 23:23:37","modified":"2002-07-13 23:23:37","last_modified":"Sun, 14 Jul 2002 06:23:37","article":"

A patrolman local to me is on admin leave for

using deadly force on someone with a handgun.

He may or may not be justified in shooting

the man to disarm him. I don't want to waste

even a minute and a half debating that part of

it. My question is, did he need multiple shots

fired?

Police forces all over the Untied States right

now are completely out of hand. A municipality is

probably not going to reign them in without using

force themselves.

What to do?

If nothing else, we need to discuss this openly,

freely, and without harrassment. Someone in Inglewood

captured a cop beating a teenager nearly to death

last week. Now the L.A. police force is so powerful,

so corrupt, so immoral that they're pushing the

issue that there's warrant out for the videographer

in a clear and obvious attempt to discredit him.

Where's his immunity in exchange for his testimony?

Where's California's priorities? Damage control?

Killing the messenger?? We saw where that got California

in the electricity industry last summer. It SHOULD HAVE

BEEN MORE IMPORTANT TO ADDRESS ISSUES BRAVELY AND FACE

TO FACE, THAN COVERING UP, HARRASSING, DISCREDITING AND

FORTIFYING THE IMMORALITY.

At the same time the Inglewood case is raging, another

police brutality case seems to be growing organically

in Oklahoma into something just as \"big.\" Or newsworthy

at least. Can we take those two cases in the context of

what's going on all over the nation? What's been going

on for years? Decades?

Are we ready to discuss apartheid? Can we discuss the

police state that's already here instead of pandering to

the mainstream sensibility and carefully talking about

the \"future police state??\"

Wake up people. It's here.

I was interrogated for two and a half hours last week

after taking three photographs of a police woman filming

protesters in Milwaukee.

http:\/\/www.indymedia.ie\/cgi-bin\/newswire.cgi?id=7907<\/a>

http:\/\/mke.indymedia.org\/front.php3?article_id=667<\/a>

http:\/\/atlanta.indymedia.org\/front.php3?article_id=6069<\/a>

http:\/\/radio4all.net\/proginfo.php?id=4991<\/a>



Put this in the context of what's going on all over

the Nation State called \"USA,\" and you tell an awfully

disturbing story.

(I tremble to even call it that. (USA - We are a very

divided nation right now. Mayhaps even more divided than

we ever were in our history - Is anyone ready to discuss

THAT??))

For crying out loud! Discuss something. Anything. Look

for issues, look for topics. Look for connections between

different events that are clearly being disconnected from

each other by the corporate media, the US government, and

the burgeoning world government.

http:\/\/atlanta.indymedia.org\/front.php3?article_id=6048<\/a>

This police state didn't begin September 12, 2001. It

was growing behind the scenes, quietly and discretely

since at least as early as the early 1980s.

http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/nessie\/6.html<\/a>

Some say promptly after world war II. Let's not argue which

month it began, let's start helping each other figure out

where in hell it came from and how we can kick it in the ass

and send it running off like the \"scape goat\" it deserves

to be.

Because then we need to figure out where these bullshit

faked war on drugs, war on terrorism, war on communists,

war on witches came from.

Only then can we continue telling ourselves and each

other that we live in a free country, a democracy or

a republic with something resembling representation.

marco

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