My mother and father grew up in poverty in a coal mining town. When my mother married, my father went to work in a factory after serving four years in the US Air Force, they were entering the Middle Class of the USA. Between the two of them, they moved into the Middle Class and educated their children. Poverty ended in my Father and Mother's life by the ages of 20. They would purchase a home about ten years later. Our family has never returned to those hard times. The Floyd family was still struggling with poverty and they are younger than me. My mother is 85 years old now. She remembers those hard days as a girl and a young woman, but, she hasn't experienced that for 65 years of her life.
Racism still continues and it has to stop. Bigotry, racism and prejudice needs to stop now.
Police no longer have to be trained in Erik Prince Training Camps. (click here) It is time to end the escalation of the militarization of our homeland police. What was witnessed with the police that killed George Floyd, was training in the arts of suppressing the suspect. They are not normal techniques and methods for American homeland police. That knowledge of putting pressure on the neck in the right amounts to kill is LEARNED. Knowledge of anatomy was never part of the average police training, but, it is today.
If any police union is going to justify enormous force in day to day policing then they are as much the problem. I remember when Eric Garner was killed by police, the police union was identified as part of the problem and not the solution.
The country has become occupied by a police force that focuses on suppression of will and life as part of their training. We witnessed that this time as well, especially in the brutality of Washington, DC.
There are no terrorists that run in the park every morning or walk their dog every evening or conduct bird watching. There is no need nor has there been any need for a militarized police force in the USA. September 11, 2001 occurred once on USA soil. The police being trained to handle terrorists at every turn is the wrong approach for the police that patrol our neighborhoods and Main Street. The people need to take back their country from fear and the imposition of wrongful deaths justified by police work.
Any technique that uses the neck by police to capture a suspect must be ended. No police union should stand in the way of ending those police methods, policies, and practices that involve restraint with a person's neck. Those days are over.
May George Floyd rest in peace and his family find solace in these difficult days.
