Since I don’t believe in
coincidence I think I understand why I was experiencing difficulty in writing
this week’s discussion blog. As I was
unable to attend class this week i don’t know what topics were discussed so
allow me to just vent a little. In the
last 3 days all forms of media have been bombarded with information and images showing
police using excessive force to peaceful protest turning violent at the blink
of an eye some suggest that the riot in Dallas was deliberately executed in
order to provide right wing conservative a higher platform to show others both
domestically and internationally that non-whites cannot peacefully assemble and
bolster Donald Trump supporters. I recall
after the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing riot there was a truck driver who
was wrenched from his vehicle and beaten his name is Reginald Denny he was viciously
attacked by rioters and looters, his life was only saved when a minister placed
his body between the driver and his attackers.
I remember this because the national and local news ran the footage over
and over ad nauseum until I no longer cringed when I saw it, the news media has
run any and all media of the shooting and the riot repeatedly so much so I had
to turn off my television, it’s was just information overload. If it was the intent of certain news media to
make me scared, bewildered and angry then they have succeeded. If the message is civilians have no right to
expect to be treated like human beings, then they have succeeded. What most neglect to see is this type of
abuse of power has been occurring for years the difference new and better
technology, we now have the ability to show when officers are committing the
very laws they were sworn to uphold. I have
no answers, only more questions. Corruption
exist in all walks of life but when the people who are supposed to be
protecting us are the same ones oppressing us who then will protect us from the police?
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