Another attack on a unarmed black man
Yet another attack on a unarmed black man
So here I am writing about yet another attack on an unarmed black man. Why is it that this is a running occurrence that we constantly see over and over again with no change?
If you haven't heard, you must be living under a rock but it was announced yesterday that two Virginia police officers have been sued for allegedly drawing their guns on a uniformed Army officer during a traffic stop and spraying him with a substance. One of them has since been terminated.
Now in my opinion there was nothing allegedly about it as it was on tape just as George Floyd's murder was on tape. So what's with the allegedly but in this country you are innocent until proven guilty even if you have every second on tape for the whole world to see.
But I am getting off topic, on Dec. 5, 2020, Windsor police officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker pulled over U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario, who is Black and Latino, while he was dressed in uniform, according to the lawsuit filed April 2.
They pulled him over in his newly purchased Chevrolet Tahoe SUV for not having a rear license plate, according to the lawsuit. Which by the way he clearly did have a temporary one taped to his back window. Nazario was returning home from his duty station at the time, the lawsuit said.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in Norfolk, claims the officers violated Nazario's constitutional rights and seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
We all can clearly see from the police body camera footage the officers pursuing Nazario, who then pulled over at a well-lit gas station. Now if you listen and read things they tell you to put your hazard lights on and go to a well lite area with people around if you are afraid that it:
A. It may not be a real police officer or
B. If you are a black man in this country afraid for your life (Which is every day for them)
According to the report Officer Crocker submitted after the incident, Crocker said the driver was "eluding police" and he considered it to be a high-risk traffic because he refused to pull over on a dark road by power hunger, under trained police officers who are on a rampage of killing black men. I don't blame him, I wouldn't have pulled over either. It's not like he took them on a high speed chase around the city.
Look, let's just tell it like it is here, sorry if the truth offends you, but here it is everyday on video for the world to see.
When he did pull over in a well lit gas station he proceeded to put his both hands out the window and asked the police calmly what he did, which by the way, is his right to do.
The police officers at this point became aggressive screaming at him to get out of the car. He told them he was serving our country, that he was active in the military and that he was afraid of being shot.
He kept his hands out and kept asking why he was pulled over.
The police were getting more aggressive and finally pepper sprayed him. They pulled him out, handcuffed him and searched his car, he was later released without charge.
But this could have went down so differently as so many others do, ending up with a murder of yet another unarmed black man. Look if you read my blog you know I am an older white woman who doesn't have anything to worry about if I get pulled over and even if I had boys, I wouldn't have to teach them how not to get shot by police if they are pulled over or arrested. But many of my black friends do have to do this. They must be worried about being killed or their children being killed each and every day just because of their skin color.
This is unimaginable to me and yet I know it's true.
Now before you come at me, I am not saying defund the police, I am saying you need more hours to do hair then you need to be a police officer in this country. We need better training, deeper background checks to see how they personally feel about racism. We need to teach sensitivity training, mental health training before we give a gun and this kind of power to just anyone.
Thank God this did not end up in another tragedy like so many others we have witnessed. I know I would like to apologize to US Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario for this and thank him for his service and for standing up and filing this lawsuit because nowadays it only seems to matter if you hit them in their pockets, yes, this is the frigged up world we live in today.
So today my friends, remember we all bleed red, we are all God's children and we need to start acting like it.
These are mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, friends and families losing their loved ones on a daily basis and this needs to stop. We need to make a change, we need a better system in place because clearly this one is broken.
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