But I digress.... My point is, it takes some time to dispense 12 bullets.  After a few shots, shooting is not a knee-jerk reaction anymore, if it ever should be one in the first place for a peace officer.  In his testimony Kerrick used all the key words necessary to influence and ensure and the correct perception of the jury and anyone listening or, later, reading a court transcript...  “he wouldn’t stop.  He kept trying to get to my gun. I thought I was gonna die ‘cause nothing I would do would stop him.”

 

Cops now have the dialogue down pat that exonerates them for murdering citizens.  They’ve upgraded from the "he reached for his waist" to now claiming that suspects are reaching for THEIR waists.  Going for the officer’s gun being an immediate and deserved death sentence.  Cops ensure that they are overheard by dispatchers and dash cam audio claiming that a suspect is going for their gun (see the Marcus Jeter video above).  Also comments to the effect that the suspect is resisting arrest are helpful.  All this audio backed up by a fabricated police report and at least one police witness’ false testimony trumps a citizen’s videotape of an encounter in 90% of cases.  Usually, if the suspect happens to accidentally live, all the bullshit charges the cops accuse the victim of are dropped in exchange for making the complaints and court case against the cops go away.  Where are the "good cops" that are part of this process?  Surely if the corruption and wrongdoing are this obvious from the civilian's point of view it has to be glaringly obvious from within the ranks.  Yet… nothing.  This is organized crime by definition of the RICO statutes.  I akin it to the Catholic church protecting pedophile priests.  You know they are breaking laws, morally and literally, but you help hide their deeds to protect them and the image of the institution while victims pile up left and right?  Where are the "good cops" then?  Where are the "good cops" now?

 

For the record, anyone who has grown up in or around the “hood” runs AWAY from a person shooting at them, not toward them. Like the North Carolina cop above reported that the person he murdered was charging him and trying to take his gun but he had time to strike his victim 10 times.. after he heard the guy “grunting” (ya know.. like an animal, dear jurors).  Then the victim opts to charge the person pointing a gun at him and doesn’t quit until he’s received ten gunshots from a police issued firearm (probably a 9mm glock).  You ever been shot before?  You ever been shot witih a 9mm handgun at close range before?  Darren Wilson also reported that Mike Brown got into a 3-point stance (ya know… like in football) and charged toward him from 30+ feet away and prompted him to discharge his weapon numerous times before finally felling Mike Brown.  That actually sounds like something you’d see on a safari show on Animal Planet or in a Quentin Tarantino movie.  Cops are out there Cecil The Lion-ing unarmed citizens in the street.  Killing them.  No leg shots or incompacitating them.  Shooting them dead.  Then lying about it.  Protected by a Blue shroud and a corrupt legal system sponsored, in some instances, by corporate prisons.

 

I think the rumor of "good cops" ranks up there with talk of the Loch Ness Monster, El Chupacabra and Big Foot.  I’ve heard of ‘em and I’ve even seen some blurry pics that SUGGESTS something is out there, but there is no clearcut proof they are out there.  So in my mind, I choose to believe they are ALL murderers or aiders and abettors of perpetrators of these crimes against citizens and especially the Black community.

 

For cops and cops’ families out there that disagree I challenge you to challenge them to speak out about brutality and killings perpetrated across the country.  They can no longer be classified as isolated incidents.  The officers can’t be classified as 'off the radar' or as rogue officers if your family member has knowledge of their wrongdoing and doesn’t say or do anything.  They are just as complicit in the crimes themselves if they choose to look the other way.  You know how, saaaay.... two people hold up a gas station and one of them kills someone in commission of the crime they can BOTH be charged with murder?  You know how aiding and abetting is a crime when perpetrated by a civilian?  You know how harboring a fugitive is a crime?  I watch enough LAW & ORDER to know that much.  Just think if “quiet” cops were held to that standard when they don’t speak up about crimes they witness officers committing?  What if your family member knew about or was discovered falsifying police reports to cover other officers’ crimes? What if they were held to the same letter of the law and the same severity of punishment as Black people that are herded through the “justice” system (guilty or not)??  Would they be better cops then?  Would they perform with integrity if there were no cameras on?  I think we have the answer to that one already in spite of cameras being on.

 

You decide for yourself.  Me?  I’m not quite convinced of your existence Good Cop.  Reveal yourself to me.  Otherwise… Ice Cube wrote it; NWA said it..

 

 

Vernon Heard

Editor

Positive Black Images Magazine