REAL TALK from KB: If I see one more pro cop post I’m going
to lose my mind….no offense to all of you who support them but none of my
interactions with cops in uniform have been positive….starting from my teens in
NY. I’ve noticed that the majority of people who have been posting the pics are
my Caucasian friends…..so let me share a few things to help you understand why
there is no appreciation on my part.
Cops are trained and programmed to racially profile plain and
simple. Blacks and Mexican are disproportionately stopped and detained in their
everyday lives; hence the phrase ________ while Black.
As a teen I was riding my friends bike, I was cat called by
a tow truck driver who told me to “come here”. I’m thinking this fool is a perv
until the cops roll up on me. The tow truck driver claimed I’m riding a bike
stolen out of his garage…(all this from a slight glance from a moving truck
several feet away.) I explain to the cop I’m on a friend’s bike….but the tow
truck driver is going on and on about “you people” so me and the bike are
swooped up until my friend can show up with the documentation for the bike. I
was presumed guilty because this man said so. No one stopped to ask my parents
a damn thing…no apology from the cop or the truck driver in the inappropriate
way he approached the situation.
Fast forward a few years in my early 20’s in Cali….I’m in
the DMV parking lot. PARKED! I’m sitting in the car waiting to take my road
test. I look up and there are cops with lights flashing, asking how and why’s
about the car. Their reason for the funky treatment? The registration sticker
is upside down.
My sister is involved in a hit and run with my mother in the
car. Someone sees the incident and my sister following the driver to get the
insurance information. It gets reported that there’s a high speed chase and my
sister is the aggressor. The teenage girl (who is Caucasian is the person that
hit and took off) The cops question my mother and sister until they see the
damage done to the car and the little girl nervously talked too much and told
on herself.
My mother lives in a gated community and I was waiting
outside the gate because she wasn’t home yet. I had a dog in my car and I let
him out to go take care of his business….a couple drives past and see me
sitting in my PARKED car and I could see them periodically peek out of their
blinds….15 minutes later the cops roll up on me. They ran my mother’s address
to confirm my story.
I’ve been talked to like I was the devil’s own when I asked
why I was being detained (which is my right mind you).
I was trained to do retail asset protections and I found
myself following the presumed “unwritten” mind you, guidelines of racial
profiling and then was taught not to mention race in reporting…..I found myself
buying into a group mindset oh a let me mention that cops are disrespectful to
asset protections folks as well because they are not a “real” part of the “brotherhood”
…hood (as in KKK) being the operative
word…
So pardon me when I say what NWA was bold enough to proclaim
on wax F____ THE POLICE! They’re often the people escalating the problem….ask
any brother or sister that has ever been victimized or brutalized because of
they dared to have melanin or know their rights.
To all my Caucasian friends posting – you can keep telling
yourselves that people are locked up because they must have deserved it but you
know that’s not always true….people are often framed and evidence is concocted and
or lost…. A disingenuous and scripted "I’m sorry" and a check is supposed to make up for 20 and 30 years of life and
trauma from being in prison Reuben “Hurricane” Carter ring a bell? (movie was
made about it.)
I know not all cops
are bad cops but I haven’t met any good ones while in uniform and you have never
had to be defendant about your very existence 24/7 . We are constantly asking
don’t brutalize or kill us and most of America continues to ask why we're asking.....
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