Res ipsa loquitur: The thing speaks for itself. Namely, the police do violence because it seems that’s all they know. This unfortunate state-sponsored killing by police occurred 2 years ago in South Boston, Virginia, in May 2013. The police had Linwood Lambert in custody; he died 30 minutes later.
We get to see it now because of the discovery from the civil suit pending. MSNBC covered this story exclusively on Wednesday, November 11, 2015.
Linwood Lambert was not under arrest when the police responded to a call that he was acting in a delusional manner. Here is the remainder on video: www.msnbc.com/…
Here is another video in case the MSNBC video doesn’t work:
I find this scenario problematic for several reasons.
- The police were called for help, and now the person in their custody is dead.
- They used the taser like a cattle prod TWENTY TIMES, which is against policy.
- Their crime has been kept under wraps by the prosecutor and the medical examiner for more than two-and-a-half years.
- Isn’t there another way to deal with people having a crisis besides calling the police? Are we so stingy and mean that we don’t want to pay for public health services?
- The video tape is coming out now. The taxpayers pay for that technology, and where is the accountability?
I don’t understand why some citizens are treated worse than animals, and others are treated like human beings and citizens. I think it’s because the police are one part of the white-supremacist system of oppression. The police are just one aspect of a criminal injustice system that treats black people as having less rights than white people. Well, they got away with the killing criminally, but maybe not civilly. These cops still have their jobs, and they have all been promoted. I guess promotions are the currency for state-sponsored murder. This is not merely a problem for South Boston or a problem for Virginia. It is a national problem, a national disgrace. The USA is not civilized, not humane, and not united.
No justice, no peace.
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