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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

I can't breathe!!

Have you seen the video of Eric Garner in New York City getting attacked by the police? This HUGE guy is talking to a policeman and another sneaks up behind him and starts choking him. Eric goes down on the sidewalk and the policeman holds his arm around him then another sits on his chest. Eric Garner yells GET OFF, GET OFF. He continues to yell then says GET OFF, I CAN'T BREATHE. Eric Garner eventually dies. The police killed him because they sat on his chest and he couldn't breathe. Seeing this video made me very angry. I can't believe how the police just ignored the man when he was yelling that he couldn't breathe. Cops are in service to assist us, not to kill us. Then I thought, if this big guy is being confrontational with police what are they supposed to do? If they tell him to kneel on the ground and he says no, are they supposed to shoot him or tase him? If there are 4 policemen around him are they supposed to walk away and call the firemen to come spray water on him? When the police tell you to do something, DO IT!! If the police are following your car with blinking lights should you ignore them and just drive home like OJ Simpson did?
So, the guy jumps on his back and takes him down. Does him give up and do what they tell him? NO, I continues fighting with them! They SIT on him, no SHOOT him. He says, "I can't breathe". How many times when I was a kid did I wrestle with my friends and when they were on top of me did I say the same thing and then they got off and I got up and started fighting with them? I hate people getting killed, KILLED!! There is no justification for someone dying. We shouldn't fear that the police will kill us if they stop us or question us. But, how many times have we been told by parents or teachers to obey the police when they tell us to do something? Do we want to fear everyone we pass on the street when the police are not doing their job. People in "black neighborhoods" are upset that the police protect themselves with deadly force, but would they rather the police don't go into their neighborhoods? They are trying to make this a race thing, but then black police officers get criticized that they are members of the police force :(.
These days when a black person gets killed by the police it makes the news. It is always a white police officer killing a black person. Why don't we hear about black people killing black people, because it is common? We get mad at police that kill unruly bad people that don't obey the law and attack the police. Why don't we get mad at people that don't obey the police? Why is it acceptable in our society for people to ignore the laws and ignore the people trying to enforce those laws? NO ONE SHOULD DIE! But, that is why we got tazers and then people get upset that the police use those. Do other countries have these problems?
Do the French police ever kill anyone? Do the Chinese police ever kill anyone? Remember when the biggest fear in Korea was the police visiting your house at night and no one ever seeing you again? Why is our society so self-destructive? Why do we condone lawlessness?
People have advised me not to go to Thailand because it is not safe. I would rather go to a place where the government doesn't allow lawlessness and keeps the people under control rather than live in an area where I am not safe walking down the street because the police are not enforcing the law. I would rather go live in a small town of 5500 people where everyone knows each other and people obey the law rather than continue living in a big city where the police are afraid to do their job because people will question everything they do.

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