One
thing we learned from the LAPD beating of Rodney King
If
acts are caught on video, criminal charges a good chance a D.A. will be forced
to bring
From
the video another frightening lesson was learned
If
the charged officers were not convicted, the verdict would a riot bring
After
28 years from May 4, 1992 only the ante seems to have been upped
If
there is a video on a killing as in the case George Floyd, a delay in charges
may cause riots to erupt
On
a Monday evening caught on video with Chauvin on this neck Floyd died
Only
a question of time before unreasonable force usage would be denied
Tuesday
morning police announced death from a medical emergency by someone resisting
arrest
Tuesday
afternoon the videos revealed his death not what the police chose to suggest
Instead
of normal administrative leave, Chauvin and the three officers were fired
Too
late as the winds of police brutality began flaming protests of those of black
deaths now tired
Some
tear gas and rubber bullets at a growing number of protesters who supposedly
water bottles threw
And
then the sky opened up with rain and the protest was through
Wednesday
morning the officers were all named and the mayor urged the D.A. to charges
press
D.A.
claimed office working at full speed and protesters grew in number, looting and
burning broke out and police added flash bangs to tools to suppress
Very
soon but not soon enough Chauvin was charged with murder in the third degree
Soon
elevated to 2nd joined the aiding and abetting for the other three
Like
a melanoma the riots in Minneapolis across this nation spread
With
massive arrests, lootings, arson and shootings leaving cops and rioters dead
After
the memorial services a grieving nation copes with how to move racial healing
ahead
Something
is very wrong if the rule of law on police conduct can too easily be shred
The
killing of Breonna Taylor, an EMT, in a no knock break the door down Louisville
raid
No
video or body cams to the killing and so police versus a witness only and no
protest parades
Most
police want to protect and serve most civilians at least whites their accounts
believe
But
with no charges for Taylor’s death, turned on body cams must always be the rule
if trust in our police in black neighborhoods we can achieve
© June 10,
2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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