Broken agreements that betray trust can evoke emotional reaction.
In the cases of law enforcement injuring or killing another human being by using excessive force while appointed a public responsibility to serve and protect, the officer has abused his/her role and villainized a civilian to the point of execution. This action coupled with a timeline of severe oppression and unresolved prejudicial conflict, is a human uprising to right a wrong, a wrong in which the oppressed party was apprehended with a tactic reserved for military combat not previously imposed on the civilian world. Does violence restore a person's life? Does violence teach either person a lesson? The only lesson from violence is more violence.
Violence rarely resolves the loss or heartache from loss. The restitution is justice and reforming inappropriate tactics, such as constraining civilians with excessive force... Whether that justice is equitable to the loss depends on cultural viewpoints for upholding human rights, restoring the dignity of all who are impacted by this betrayal, and whether the legal system adopts criteria to leverage and guarantee protection and human right. This is the currency for negotiating coexistence at this time.
Transparency is significant. It is often a lack of transparency that breeds distrust, as it is often in isolated situations that violent actions are perpetuated and most insidious.
I'm not certain if "winning rights" is the best way to identify with living with dignity. More often with human engagements it is a matter of existence and someone bullying another to comply with their rules for coexisting. When the legal system and law enforcement oppress civilians, the people will rise up in varying degrees, including violently, as a voice of accountability.
The history of law enforcement tragedies means it is a PRIORITY to comprehend why it is necessary to demilitarize our police force nationwide city by city. The TRAINING is in question, training that involves apprehending a civilian using a military tactic that is disproportionate to civilian threat. Couple this tactic with social bias, adrenaline, and PTSD, and civilians are at-risk from vast categories of vulnerability while any law enforcement officer is facing potential liability for murder.
How long are we willing to be complacent while vulnerable populations are marginalized and mistreated under the guise of normalcy?? with issues of civilian fragility, marginalization, displacement, and poor legal representation suffering at the hands of "police brutality", these methods of meeting civil unrest have more clinical evidence of producing harm than resolution.
National tensions in larger cities give clear evidence that the reformation needed is within the very framework of training those who "serve and protect" to comprehend the levels of force for which a single human being is incapable of surviving. Clearly, they are aware. These are not casual mishaps. When do smaller city sectors set distinctive community measures to steer the direction of our criminal justice system? Is bigotry the guiding force? Is our criminal justice system polluted? On a local level, how do we condone ICE? A new jail? Enforce municipal Code that criminalizes poverty? What is our city and county interpretation of State law? Crimminalzation of marginalized populations exploits the people. The people are AWARE.
When civilian protestors and journalists are at risk of being pulverized by rubber bullets and pepper spray, we are no longer in unison with democratic rules of engagement. Our laws are meant to protect us, all of us, especially our most vulnerable, and our law enforcement agencies are meant to act as public liaisons to manage points of civilian conflict in which the law is not being observed. Our police are not supposed to be the source of public threat. Our police are not supposed to punish civilians.
Warfare is not the objective, but leveraging our self-governance as a people's government means being positioned to defend civil liberties and uphold our Constitution. Our gov is armed to the hilt. Recent training involves our domestic law enforcement adopting lethal execution style military restraint tactics, its clear we are in a bit of a civilian conundrum.
We need to defund private interest groups responsible for introducing foreign military execution style restraint on our civilian populations. These depts nationwide need accountability reforms, training reforms, higher standards of police recruitment requirements, as well as internal and public social awareness training, and transparency. The issue is excessive force leveraged against civilians, abuse of authority, and risk of civilian endangerment. Funding combat soldiers for our city streets is a major faux pas...
Law enforcement is being retaliated against for abuse of their authority, but to argue for more protection distorts their position. The people are not the enemy, bias and bigotry is. Police depts feel threatened by the public they are trained to serve and protect. The training and climate for which they work has been compromised by bigotry, greed, and human failure to uphold human decency.
There is a huge difference between being subjugated and oppressed by a person's position of authority in which that person is legally positioned and trained to act responsibly as a civil servant, armed to the hilt, and someone rising up in anger because of lives lost, poverty, mental illness, or distress, lives that continue to be jeopardized by debilitating circumstances, now amplified by officers of the law abusing their trusted position.
Comparing police risk and civilian risk does not even come close to being the same because it is a police officer's duty to serve and protect, not punish and murder. Kneeing a person to death is manslaughter and our policing forces are using this tactic to apprehend whom they perceive as threats to society. ANY person or group of people can be seen as threatening and then targeted as threats when hostility is the response to injustice or loss, whether in a uniform or as a civilian. Injustice does not excuse violence, but it is a messenger.
Police officers KNOW that the career they have chosen puts their lives at risk. The training they receive to preserve lives and preserve their own lives requires immense responsibility, discernment, physical strain, psychological composure, and ACCOUNTABILITY when they FAIL. Militant actions that perpetuate murder is visible failure. Our system of management has failed both the police and the public.
No one is "safe" under current police protocols and policy. Rookie cops are bullied to comply with internal structures which are corrupt. Civilians should not fear law enforcement. Law enforcement is meant to intervene with sound practices to curtail violence as civil servants. They are positioned as keepers of the peace, and they often risk their lives to do so. The level of training today is no longer that of peace keeping and the level of social unrest exceeds ordinary peace keeping.
The ROOT of this warzone stems from societal corruption in which people have been marginalized, oppressed, targeted with bias, and bullied into compliance, silenced, and murdered-- civilians and police officers are at war against this corruption, not each other. Anyone who uses this unrest and uprising as an excuse to harm others is not justified. There are many ways to communicate. Violence is not the solution, but it has become the unspoken, unheard, and ignored messenger for revealing pain, suffering, and monumental irrevocable failure.
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