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I Witnessed the Police Kill an Unarmed Brown Female
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by Louie b. Free | 349 entries
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I wondered how the police officer felt....now on his way to patrol the streets.
I know he didn't want to shoot her...he had his orders.
The brown female, the dear deer was dead...to no fault of her own. Probably trying to get to her mother, she was injured by an automobile.
What must that feel like for a sworn police officer, to need to end her life? What did he think about when he went home that night? Did he see her soft face/warm look when he closed his eyes?
We ask SO much of those honorable officers, the VAST MAJORITY of officers, who patrol OUR streets, OUR neighbourhoods...making our communities better places, SAFER places to live and work.
So much criticism has been levied,of late, towards our law enforcers.
Police officers,sworn to serve and protect, our neighbours who need make split-second decisions.....'is he coming to attack me,again? why is he not putting that gun down?'
We call them, at 3 am, 3 pm, ANY time/EVERY time...and they respond - walking into situations that we are running or hiding from. Sometimes they are called to protect us from ourselves. They're called upon to be protectors, defenders, mediators, psychologists, substitute parents, teachers, and friends. They often put their lives on the line for us, sometimes the innocents, sometimes the guilty. We know who they are, but, when coming into OUR neighbourhoods, they don't know who the 'bad' guys are....sometimes, until it's too late.
....and, sometimes, they're called upon to take an innocent life, in the case of the above brown, unarmed female.
I began this piece before New York police officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered. They were marked, identified as police officers. Their murderer was not. He walked down the street looking like the rest of us.
Earlier this month, protesters chanted “What do we want?… Dead cops!” as they marched in New York City...still, police officers stayed in the street, protecting those who called for their death. A new shift came on hours later, and went into crime - ridden, thug-infested neighbourhoods and defended and protected the people living there.
We ask a lot of these woman and men. .....sometimes, even to end the life of a suffering deer.
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Last week I witnessed the police shoot and kill an unarmed, brown female.
I walked over to her lifeless bodyWhile driving, I saw police lights ahead in the road.
I was concerned when I saw the one police car stopped in the passing lane, and traffic backing up.
I pulled down a side street, parked my car and walked over toward the 'scene'.
I saw the police had surrounded the female. She posed absolutely no threat to the police officers.
As I was getting closer, I saw a policeman getting his shotgun out of his car. I saw the look of helplessness in the female's right eye. Then, after a blast of the law enforcer's shotgun, the female was on the ground ...dying.. Her body convulsing, leg twitching, she took her last breaths.....shot and killed from the blast of a police officer's shotgun
I still hear that blast in my head....I still see the image of her last movements as she lie on the ground...dying.
She died without her family around....no one cradling her head as she took her last breath. She was a threat to no one. Not ill nor old, she was dead, now, lying by the side of the road. I was told by the police officers that she won't be lying there for long. Her body would be picked up, soon. I looked at her, now motionless, on the cold ground. An innocent, unarmed brown female, shot dead by the cops. I still see her looking at me, that big dark right eye. I wondered if, before she was felled by the police officer's shotgun, she wondered why I didn't help her....an unarmed, brown female....just trying to make it in our world.We ask a lot of these woman and men. .....sometimes, even to end the life of a suffering deer.
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