Monday, August 11, 2014

Why The Mike Brown and Eric Garner Incident Requires a Martin Luther King Jr. Inspired Nationwide Display of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience








First, I would like to analyze the NYPD response to civil disobedience. I believe it is the most crucial part and pivotal role in how reconciliation can begin.

I will try to withhold from placing judgment and more so point out, what you could be doing better.

What you could be doing better, first and foremost, is working on your integrity. The self-proclaimed “opposite technique of a chokehold”, is actually, a “rear-naked” blood flow oriented chokehold. It is actually one of the most deadly chokes, because of the application of direct pressure to the Jugular at the will of the executioner performing the act. It takes a mere matter of seconds before lack of oxygen to the brain begins to result in irreparable damage. Any soldier, marine, OTHER OFFICERS, or MMA novice can validate my claims here.

Now, the individual’s that were all standing behind the podium when that gentleman gave his speech; for not speaking up and further escalating tensions you are fired without pensions. Oh, I said I wasn’t going to place judgment. My bad, that’s up to New York.

If at any point your argument is the officer could have been injured by being “thrown through a plate-glass window” I say nay, you are dead wrong. If the officer was never on Eric’s back, neither one of them are in danger.

Finally, the officers in the units that are responsible for the stop and frisk policies and any officer that is motivated to stop citizens with the intent of achieving a felony arrest for their record or their units record, whether you believe in it or not to STOP NOW.

Here is why:

Public outcry is that you are being too brutal, nationwide. Your response, “Ratcheting up the authoritarian façade” is driving a wedge between you, and the people that pay your bills and keep the streets safe for you as well. You are citizens with badges,that get paid for your selflessness. You are not the hall monitors of the streets. We are responsible enough to turn in our neighbors and handle our business. If we need you, we will call. Otherwise, you are wasting your money and preventing real emergencies from being solved because you are busy patting down every black man you see “be-boppin” or every white person with a “Don’t Tread On Me” sticker.

After all. We are ALL citizens. Cops are our neighbors, brothers, sisters, sons, Fathers, Mothers and daughters and I am thankful that so many of them out there know what it is to sacrifice, as many of my veteran brethren do. That level of empathy is beginning to spread.

So, for a day. In response to Eric Garner and every other “accident” of mislead policy we will all forgive each other and put down our arms.


For everyone in the street that wants to stand up in solidarity, cops and citizens alike. Illegal Immigrants and legal citizens alike. With the knowledge that every one of us is responsible for the safety of one another; we should all wear street clothes one day at noon. We should stand together hand in hand in the us and stop the world for 1 minute. The 1 minute that everyone had to think about what they were doing and witnessing, and vowing to never stand by and watch it happen again.



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