Prometheus 6   

From the Department of Injustice

Suffer through the advertisement at the beginning and watch this video.

Now know the police brutality trial ended in a hung jury. The officer charged with filing a false report was found not guilty.

That's a link to TalkLeft.

That jury had five members with either blind support for police officers under any circumstances or a preformed opinion about Black youth, and I don't care which it is. Either is wrong. And I understand from the comments at TalkLeft the officers involved are filing a racial discrimination suit, claiming they were treated differently thana Black officer would be under the same circumstances.

This is very similar to the result when Charles Schwarz was tried for assisting Justin Volpe is sodomizing Abner Louima in a police bathroom. One juror had his mind made up to vote not guilty, and was simply not going to consider any evidence.

Cases like this can make even the most hopeful Black person (in which group I must admit I do not belong at the moment) lose belief in the 14^th Amendment. An amendment written to protect the rights of freed slaves gives more protection to corporations than the descendant of those slaves, and is regularly perverted to insure the dominance of the mainstream culture.

pfaugh.

I'm really bitter, and I'm going to bed that way.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/29/2003 10:39:21 PM |