[Mishmash] What is going on with our police?

[Fred Atkinson]

    What is going on with our police?  

        First, there's the idiotic Officer Rindal in Minneapolis.  

        Before I moved to Las Cruces, we had an incident where a police officer manhandled a citizen seriously injuring him because of something that he said to himself, quietly inside his vehicle.  The city lost that one and the monetary award was huge.  

        There's the BART officer in California that murdered a suspect that was already restrained.  

        Then there is tasering of an emotionally distraught person in Florida.  

        Now there is a dead man over use of a taser by officers.  

    I have in the past believed in the law enforcement community.  But lately, I am getting quite concerned and frightened at some of the things that are going on.  

    I thank God for those video cameras in the police cars so that we get to see the truth about what happened.  

    Why aren't the citizens going ballistic over this?  

    Why aren't the good officers speaking out against the actions taken in these incidents?  

    Where are our lawmakers when these things happen?  What are they doing about things like this?  

    I just don't understand any more.  





                                                                                Fred Atkinson 
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