There are two tiers of justice available in the United States: one for citizens and another for police officers. The “thin blue line” is alive and kicking, and it is presented in perfect detail in this video. This video might as well be a documentary of our police state because that’s what it shows. The common attitude among the officers was: we are the law, obey or face consequences. It doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, brown, man, woman, or child, if you show any perceived disrespect to someone behind a badge, you’re now a suspect. For one man, it didn’t even matter that he had just been badly burned in a car accident. He told an officer ‘no’ and paid for it with his life.

No Help For The Dying Man

The featured video shows a side of officers that is cruel and unusual. Throughout the documentary, officers escalate nearly every single encounter they have. Even in a situation that you wouldn’t think could escalate further, they find a way. This is highlighted in the case of Fouad Kaady, who had just been badly burned and wounded from a car crash. As he sat on the highway in a comatose state, the officers tasered him for not complying with commands to lay down. Kaady then jumped on the hood of a cop car and started screaming. That’s when Officer Willard was “scared” and shot Fouad, killing him instantly. This entire incident, from the time the officer stepped out of his cruiser, to the moment he shot Fouad, lasted less than 30 seconds. In an interview the officer said:

He appeared to be catatonic…I asked him to lay down…But then I thought, ‘what am I going to do if I get him to lay down?…I didn’t want to touch this man. I really felt there was a real risk to my safety…I was scared. I need to get this man help. But first I need to make sure we’re safe.

The officer acknowledges that the man was catatonic, but expected him to follow his commands? No, what really happened was the officer didn’t want to get blood on him. That’s why he said in the interview:

“The blood was really bothering me…I didn’t know what I’d do when I got him to lay down”

The whole point of being an officer is to put your safety and well-being on hold, in order to protect the safety and well-being of citizens. That’s why officers wear bulletproof vests to work and I don’t. I understand that safety is paramount in any profession, the least of which being law enforcement. But when a man is dying on the side of the road, you don’t command him to do anything. And you certainly don’t taser him, and then shoot him when he gets angry that you’ve tasered him.

Warren v. District of Columbia

Unfortunately, as the video presents later, a court has ruled that police officers have no duty to protect us. I didn’t believe this when I heard it but it’s true. In Warren v. District of Columbia, three women sued D.C. police for leaving the scene of a rape twice, making the other two women who called the police subject to rape and torture for 14 hours. The ruling was in favor of D.C. police, with the dissenting opinion:

“a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.”

This creates legal precedence for officers who don’t want to help you. Or, if they can’t help you, they can use this as their excuse when you sue them. Does that make you feel more or less safe? Combine this with decreasing gun rights, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s going to be illegal to defend yourself.

Complaints

How does your place of employment handle complaints from customers? I imagine just like most businesses, they are concerned about what their customers think. But when the organization Police Complaint Center went around to police headquarters and asked for a complaint form, they were met with the ‘Thin Blue Line’ that officers say doesn’t exist. Some were even arrested and assaulted.

In one instance, a man went into a police department asking for a complaint form, and ended on the sidewalk outside, with the officer saying “Take one more step forward and see what happens”.



In another audit of complaint forms, a man was arrested when he didn’t give ID. Their excuse for arresting him was failure to obey their requests for ID. But that’s an unlawful order, whether they like it or not. No one has to give ID to an officer, unless you’re being detained.

This video proves that if any officer wants to arrest you, they can and will. Not a single person in this video did anything wrong, let alone illegal. Some of them were just going about their daily lives, some at were at work, and some were activists. But the problem that goes unsolved is, the police are not being policed. In the video, every effort to file a complaint was obstructed, proving the need for more accountability. Because one thing is for sure, absolute power corrupts absolutely. In order to allow for this human flaw, we should not give the license to kill to ordinary men and women.

By Aaron Allbrite – DontComply.com