Police Download ReportLawsuits don't bring back dead people
Hanif Haskeem wrote a touching personal story about a police shooting from his perspective as a friend of the victim. He’s right in that the police almost never admit their own responsibility in these tragedies. The media hears that they can’t comment on ongoing investigations while the story is current news, and unless the officer(s) are convicted the media never follows up on the story. The victims’ families usually win their lawsuits but the officers are still out there enforcing the law despite their obvious inability to enforce the law in a reasonable manner.
From New American Media:
It reminds me of the rape/molestation cases in the Catholic church. The powers that be in the church knew for years, decades even, what was going on with those priests but chose to pay off the families of the victims and kept quiet about it. The police here are committing atrocious crimes and then paying off the victims’ families to keep quiet and not getting punished for their acts. It’s not okay to molest kids but it’s just fine if you beat down, shoot and kill civilians as long as you give some chump change to their families! That’s the reality we’re looking at!Money does not bring back the dead. Money does not restore the pride or self-respect ripped away from the victims of police brutality. In my opinion, if some form of order is not implemented to keep these cops honest in the line of duty eventually all hell will break loose in the streets… and finally the powers that be will pay real, authentic attention to the epidemic of police brutality not only in San Francisco but all over this place we call America.
