Tuesday, September 1, 2015

F The Police (Don't get mad...read it!!!!) By: KB 9.1.15



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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