How far would you go to defend yourself.
Now, I was just reading about those 3 cops getting off and are going free over a shooting in NYC, and I don't agree with the judgment of not guilty totally, I do agree there may be some validity to the cops defense.
The (the officers) main defense was that they thought they saw the driver goes for a gun, and they felt the driver was going to run them down. The officers felt their lives were in danger. So they put 50 bullets into the car, killing one man, and injuring the other two. Now this sound bad, right. Now does it sound like a different story if I tell you all the guys in the car was black. Right away you may think one way or the other "good" or "those cops were white right". Well does the story change if I tell you that two of the three cops were black, and the other was a Latino. So with the race card removed we can find the issue at hand.
"Black inner city youth have seemed to have no respect for each others lives, so why should the police have any respect for theirs" seems to be a statement that could be said. But I know that not every black inner city youth is that way, just as I know some white kids, and Latino kids who have zero respect for human life. This makes me sick, but I know it to be true.
I once saw a White kid try to run over a group of other white kids with his Buick Century, Rob, Timmy and I were so sick by what we saw, we agreed to serve as witnesses to go after the kid in the car. Do you know the kids that got hit refused to press charges? Their were no reporters, no protesters, no community outrage for this action. If a cop ran down a bunch of kids then all hell would break loose. These kids had no respect for their own lives, why should I care? Because I do.
Put yourself in the cops shoes, you are doing everything by the book, but not only are these kids trying to run, they are coming to you with a car, and you think based on what you heard them saying outside the club about "Getting their gun" and giving every clue that they have a gun. Now these same kids, who you think based on the way they are dressed, acting, everything about them screams "I don't respect your life or ours" the cops then have to look out for themselves, their loved ones, their family. How many bullets would you shoot to protect all of that? I would shoot my gun until they stopped moving, reload until the threat to my life is over, which is exactly what one cop did. "If these kids do not care, why should I" is what I would be thinking.
I was told of a story by a friend that was in Metro's ER and two kids were brought in because they got into a shoot out, one kid lived, the other did not. Both families started to fight in the ER. Now, I never asked what race the families were, but when I first heard the story I did think right away "black", but I never thought to ask. Black inner city youth are not the only one shooting each other, nor are white inner city kids the only ones trying to run other kids down with cars. I am also sure this happens in the suburbs. Stuff like this has to stop.
The bottom line is these kids have to start to show respect for each other, then maybe cops, and others can afford them the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes in life we reap the sins of our fathers, and of our brothers, and of the company we keep..
