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This is an article from a Dallas newspaper about a cop who pulled over a NFL running back while he and his family were rushing to the hospital to see his dying mother-in-law before she passed away. The cop pulled them over in the parking lot and pointed his gun at him. He has been reassigned to dispatch until the investigation is over but I hope that they fire him. I doubt they will. He had a clean record until this.
I really do think that even though he didn't express it to the dasher cam, I think race had a lot to do with his reaction. I think that if it had been another family of another color, he would have been more apt to let them go see their dying mother-in-law. It disgusts me that there is such corruption. It defeats the purpose of serving and protecting the public when there is such blatant disregard to common courtesy. Just because you're used to dealing with criminals, it doesn't mean that everyone is a criminal.
After watching the first season of The Wire, which is a great show, I feel like the legal system is one big fat hypocrite. This cop is probably going to be allowed back on the force and why? Politics. Sometimes not even public outrage is enough to make a change and that saddens the heart.
Even though there are some great changes going on in our country, I still feel like...there is still so much corruption. It's disgusting this boys club where they do their damndest to cover each other. I just...sometimes I wonder why there is so much animosity and hate. Why can't people just let it go? What the past generation did is past. That is between that generation. It should be up to us to shape what society will be in the future and just when you think things are going great...something like this happens. We have to start over again. It disheartens the soul.
No wonder people would just rather ignore the plight and carry blinders when they walk out into the world. Sometimes the world is just not a very nice place to be in, even when it is the United States where you are "free" to be you.
This is an article from a Dallas newspaper about a cop who pulled over a NFL running back while he and his family were rushing to the hospital to see his dying mother-in-law before she passed away. The cop pulled them over in the parking lot and pointed his gun at him. He has been reassigned to dispatch until the investigation is over but I hope that they fire him. I doubt they will. He had a clean record until this.
I really do think that even though he didn't express it to the dasher cam, I think race had a lot to do with his reaction. I think that if it had been another family of another color, he would have been more apt to let them go see their dying mother-in-law. It disgusts me that there is such corruption. It defeats the purpose of serving and protecting the public when there is such blatant disregard to common courtesy. Just because you're used to dealing with criminals, it doesn't mean that everyone is a criminal.
After watching the first season of The Wire, which is a great show, I feel like the legal system is one big fat hypocrite. This cop is probably going to be allowed back on the force and why? Politics. Sometimes not even public outrage is enough to make a change and that saddens the heart.
Even though there are some great changes going on in our country, I still feel like...there is still so much corruption. It's disgusting this boys club where they do their damndest to cover each other. I just...sometimes I wonder why there is so much animosity and hate. Why can't people just let it go? What the past generation did is past. That is between that generation. It should be up to us to shape what society will be in the future and just when you think things are going great...something like this happens. We have to start over again. It disheartens the soul.
No wonder people would just rather ignore the plight and carry blinders when they walk out into the world. Sometimes the world is just not a very nice place to be in, even when it is the United States where you are "free" to be you.
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