The US justice system is no longer
concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing
the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely
departed the justice system, it is hardly surprising that police lack
any concept of justice.
ATLANTA,
November 29 (Sputnik) — Few, if any, of the correct questions were
asked in the grand jury hearing to decide whether policeman Darren
Wilson would be indicted for killing Michael Brown.
The most important unexamined question is whether police are trained
to use force immediately as a first resort before they assess a
situation or determine if they are at the correct address. Are the
police trained that the lives of police officers are so much more
valuable than the lives of possible suspects, or a houseful of people
into whose residence a heavily armed SWAT team enters, that police
officers must not accept the risk of judicious behavior when
encountering citizens? If this is the case as all evidence indicates
that it is, then the police when they gratuitously murder members of the
public are merely doing what they have been trained to do. As police
are trained to use violence as a first resort, the police cannot be held
accountable when they do.
There are a large number of videos available online that show that
the first thing that police do when they arrive is to use force.
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