Saturday, January 17, 2015

More tone-deafness from another American police department

In the aftermath of the incidents involving black men and white police, you'd think that Police across the US would be aware not to do anything that could potentially stir up race troubles again, but you'd be wrong.

The tone deafness of the police in this story is breathtaking and shocking. 

NBC 6 in South Florida reports that police in North Miami Beach are using mugshots of black men, some of them only teenagers, from their archive, as target practice targets in their shooting range, and the Police chief ACTUALLY defended the practice.

Sad to say, it's unfortunately no different to what I expect from the Police in the US.  The police are charged with a duty to "Protect & Serve." and that means EVERYONE, not just those that happen to look like them. 

I sometimes wonder if instead of actually catching criminals in the US, the Police there hire them and give them a badge.  You do wonder at times who the criminals really are.

Let me say this, loud and clear.  It isn't just White lives that matter, Black Lives Matter too, and Hispanic lives, and Asian lives, and everybody else's lives too.

Every Life Matters.

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