TIME
TO END THE “POLICE STATE”!!!
Their is a violent and
dangerous gang terrorizing poor and “minority” communities.
Michael Brown is just the most recent fatality. This gang is armed
with guns and billy clubs. They have the right to detain citizens
and to seize private property (“asset seizure”). That is too
much power for any individual to possess without public
accountability. Gang Police too often confuses enforcing the law
with being the law itself. Crime has been decreasing, but police
brutality has increased. Gang Police is becoming increasingly
militarized.
Gang “Police” serves
and protects private property to such an extent that unarmed thieves
in the possession of a stolen $1 cigarillo can be shot dead. Or
children walking in the street that contest an order to “Get the
F**k on the sidewalk.”
We, The People, pay the
salaries of Gang Police. We pay for their cars, their weapons, their
jails. We pay for the lawyers and judges. The more crime a city
has, the wealthier the people that work in and benefit from the legal
system.
TIME FOR CHANGE.
Real change. When people get angry enough they will loot and riot.
Too many men have died in the street from the actions of this gang.
Looting is not the answer, but it is the only reason this case is
getting national attention. Without the riot, there would not be an
FBI investigation. Al Sharpton would not be at the Old Courthouse.
Looting is not the answer, but it is the only threat that Gang Police
and their Overlords take seriously. They are a violent Gang, and the
only respond to violence and upheaval.
What we really need,
though, is to become angry enough to demand real change, and to
continue working for it after the fires have been put out, the
protest marches and press conferences have ended, and the
investigations are over. Something good can come of this tragedy, if
We, The People demand it, and keep demanding it, long after our
tempers have cooled.
WE, THE PEOPLE, MUST
BEGIN TO “POLICE THE POLICE”! They have the power to monitor
us, to investigate us, and we must demand the right to monitor and
investigate them! We have the right to full accountability for
everything that they do! We must demand complete police
transparency!
1) We must require
all police to wear helmet cameras (or special glasses with cameras)
at all times. Not dashboard cameras. Not just recording
traffic stops and dispatch responses, their entire shift must be
recorded. We are paying their salaries. We have the right to
know what and how they are doing their jobs.
2) Photographs,
bio's, and badge numbers must be posted on Police Department
websites, along with regularly update schedules.
We should be able to go to the Ferguson P.D. website and look up
exactly who was on duty when Michael Brown was shot. The department
should not be able to hide this Gang member behind the fear of death
threats. Gang Police poses a potential death threat for every
citizen they encounter. Maybe if the Gang Police Member (“officer”)
that shot Michael Brown had known that his picture and name was
posted for all citizens to see, he would have behaved differently.
Maybe Michael Brown would be at college instead of the morgue.
3) Every citizen
should have the right to have a civilian witness present at ANY
interaction with a Gang Police member. Every community should have
paid Legal Observers standing by at all times.
4)
Police should be required to hold “meet and greets” at
least once a month, along with Town Hall type meetings for people
make suggestions, air grievances, and give feedback on officer's
performances in their communities.
Occupy Public
Transportation in St. Louis (OPTINSTL) is researching how to create a
petition for the above demands, but we can start by calling or
writing all of our local representatives and police departments and
demanding the changes listed above. And anyone can start a petition.
We need a lot of petitions and signatures to make our voices heard
and get the changes we need. Two sites OPTINSTL has found:
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