Camera Girl is a fan of the NCIS shows.\u00a0 Like all women she has her weaknesses.\u00a0 From the few times I\u2019ve sat through these procedurals I have been enlightened as to just how many blonde, beautifully coiffed policewomen there are who can chase down a two-hundred-pound perp, subdue and cuff him while wearing high heels and without breaking a fingernail.\u00a0 Well sure, I can see that.<\/p>\n
By sad happenstance tonight she was watching NCI-NO (New Orleans) while I was in the living room.\u00a0 The action was around an NOPD officer who while in pursuit of a robbery suspect becomes surrounded by a crowd of the suspect\u2019s friends and thinking he sees a gun in the hand of a man shoots and kills him.\u00a0 So, of course, the cop is white and the suspect and the shooting victim are black.\u00a0 Eventually we find out that the victim was holding a phone that the policeman mistook for a gun.\u00a0 Speeches and anger by the black cast members over the unjust treatment of black men by law enforcement, shame and appeasement by white cast members over how racist the world is.\u00a0 The policeman resigns in shame.\u00a0 The victim\u2019s mother gives a dignified and loving speech about her son.\u00a0 Everyone looks wistful.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all very nice.\u00a0 But isn\u2019t that exactly what they said was the case with Michael Brown in Ferguson?\u00a0 He was just a gentle giant who was executed by a racist cop. \u00a0He was a good kid who just accidentally assaulted a policeman, tried to take his gun and even after being shot once, charged the officer rather than surrender.\u00a0 Why that could happen to anyone.<\/p>\n
Anyway, what I\u2019m wondering is when the next police show on tv is going to devote an episode to the knock out game.\u00a0 You know, where a black teenager cold cocks some old Hassidic man or woman just to see if he can knock him unconscious with one punch while his friends capture it on their phones.\u00a0 As a special bonus if he hits his head hard enough on the pavement he might even die.\u00a0 Now that would be must see tv.\u00a0 Maybe they could explain how it\u2019s really racism by the old man that caused the incident.<\/p>\n
Or maybe they can highlight one of those scenes that get captured on camera fairly frequently of a white or Hispanic or even black teenager being mobbed by black teenagers, knocked down and pummeled relentlessly with fists and feet until unconscious and then robbed of shoes and other belongings.\u00a0 Certainly, this can be shown to be, once again, the result of anti-black discrimination.<\/p>\n
So, the point of this post is to say that the bad relations between the police and the inner-city black population is hardly one of inexplicable racism.\u00a0 The police are stuck with trying to keep order within an environment where many of the inhabitants, of these neighborhoods, even the teenagers, are depraved thugs and the rest of the community blames the police for enforcing laws that everywhere else are just normal behavior.<\/p>\n
And now since the police have been prosecuted for doing their jobs, they have sensibly stepped back from enforcing the laws in these neighborhoods.\u00a0 And the result of that is criminality and the law of the jungle.\u00a0 Just last week, the Mayor of Baltimore begged his citizens to stop shooting each other so that there would be more beds available for COVID-19 patients.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Ferguson has brought us to in 2020.<\/p>\n
Now I know that Hollywood would never have the courage to provide equal time to the politically incorrect truth about life in modern American cities but it certainly would get high ratings and everyone has always told me that Hollywood is a business and what makes money decides what is shown.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s much of a market for the racist cop trope any more.<\/p>\nSorry, there are no polls available at the moment.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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