Friday, May 01, 2015

The City of Baltimore is not on trial.

There are six officers that allowed a man to die. There is exceptional proof those officers did not value human life, except perhaps their own. No one wants a police officer that doesn't value life. The lives of people are put in their hands everyday, they have to regard every human life with value even if they are suspects with an arrest warrant.

There are institutional problems, but, they are nation wide. The problem pervades policing in the USA. There is no city on trial, but, the practice of policing as it is applied in a militarized structure is on trial and it needs to end.

The State Attorney did not make political statements, she stated facts about herself as a reassurance she understood the problems. There was absolutely nothing out of line in her address to the people at a news conference.

The militarized standard of policing instilled during the Bush White House after September 11, 2001 removes Due Process from the citizen. It is an illegal culture that currently pervades the practice of policing. It places the citizen in opposition of police in a method that kills. There is nothing else to understand.