You know, I’m really getting sick and tired of all these posts about police brutality. And I would love for the day when there will be no more posts to publish about police brutality. But until that day comes, I am left with no choice.
There is an element of police brutality in this nation that is sometimes, borderline racism. I am NOT saying that all cops are guilty of this. I know there are some who are honestly trying to protect and serve their communities.
But when a man leaves his job, and goes to pick up his kids from daycare and gets tased and arrested because he sat on a public bench while waiting to get his kids, I think something is inherently wrong with that… here, in America… the home of the “FREE!”
The incident began when the man in the video – who is black – sat on a bench outside his kids’ daycare center. Security guards ask him to leave. The man said he looked around and saw no evidence that the bench was a private bench and he kept sitting.
The police were called and began asking the man for his ID and in Minnesota where this incident, he was not required to show his ID if there were no suspicion that he had done anything wrong.
The man is heard on the video telling the police officer that he was not doing anything wrong, just waiting for his kids to come out from daycare. But of course this incident had to escalate to the point where he was tazed and arrested for sitting on a public bench.
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