NON-MUSLIM BLACKS IN AMERICA UP AGAINST THEIR OWN SELVES.
…AND HOW
THE POLICE IN AMERICA ARE BRINGING
THE WORSE FROM THEM WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN MALAYSIA NOT BOTHERING ABOUT
VEHICLES THAT HAVE BROKEN TAIL LIGHTS.
By
Mansor Puteh
(Note: A
police officer was shot in the head in New
York City with the suspect in custody. But who in the
city will care about the officer?)
However,
one can never get this sort of incidents in the Muslim and even the Chinese
areas in any city in America ,
or even in Harlem for that matter.
Most
likely the police officers doing the beat in Harlem
are mostly Blacks, so they know how to relate better to those other Blacks
living in this area.
It seems
that every few weeks incidents like these would happen when everybody in the
country thought the last of it had happened and everybody, the police and the
Blacks had learnt a valuable lesson from the incidents of this nature that had
happened.
Then it
happened in Baltimore in Maryland .
Six Baltimore police officers
have been charged for homicide for the murder of Freddie Gray whose only
‘crime’ it seemed was that he locked eyes with one of the officers who detained
him and tried to charge him for possessing a knife which turned out to be not
illegal for anyone to carry.
And the
case will come to it closure with some judgment.
But alas
all is moot as the dead Gray can never find total justice from the six police
officers, three Whites and three Blacks. He should have known better.
All the
Blacks also ought to know better.
The streets
of Baltimore as much as the other cities
throughout America
have seen senseless death, followed by protests which also gave some Blacks the
opportunity to loot.
They
also do not seem to realize that it was the video recorded on cell phones that
had finally done some police officers in, and it is the same cell phone and
other devices, too, that could do them in, since what they do, the looting and
carnage, are all recorded from many angles.
So it
was not a surprise that some Black men in Baltimore
had been arrested for destroying public property and also looting.
And one
can never be sure what sort of scenario or plot that will emerge until another
young Black man is killed for some unusual reason by some other White police
officers.
The best
is to get the Blacks to behave themselves more properly when confronting some
White police officers in order to avoid any untoward incident from happening
that could lead to his death.
The
Black men are also not totally blameless.
Blaming
the White police officers may be nice but the Blacks too must bear some of the
blame. The White police officers cannot be given any chance or opportunity to
harm anymore Black men.
And the
onus is on the Black men, while the White police officers must be asked to show
more tact; their brethren have shown the lack of that in many instances and
yet, some of them have never learnt much or anything from them.
But let’s
not get carried away. The problems some Blacks in America are having with their
police have a strange dimension.
The
Blacks in America
are not up against the police in the country over the death of some other Black
kids who died in police custody or due highhandedness, as some alleged.
They are
not Muslim-Blacks in America
who are doing that. This particular group of Black or African-Americans does
not get involved in such controversy; they are better behaved and hardly ever
take to the streets to express their views against the police there.
The
Muslim-Blacks do take to the streets but once or twice a year to parade in the
Muslim Parades or to pray during Eid Mubarak or Hari Raya Puasa.
So far
no Muslim-Black in America
has ever been involved with the police with dramatic ending.
There
must be a very good reason for that to happen.
The
truth is that the Muslim-Blacks in America normally behave better than
those who are not Muslims.
The main
reason why some young Blacks in America
are killed or died in police custody is because of their lifestyles and other
ways which cause them to become targets with some who suffer because of that.
They
should take greater care of what they do and how they behave in public driving
cars or even walking and standing on the sidewalks.
And they
must take due care when being confronted by police officers especially if they
are White.
Driving
with broken tail lights in America
is against the law and the police officers can stop a driver and issue him a
summons or ticket as they call it in America .
In Malaysia , the
police officers do not do that sort of thing so there are many people driving
vehicles with broken tail lights and also, tampered license plates, so that
their car registration numbers are not recorded by the AES traffic cameras.
The
motorists in Malaysia
are only taken action on by the police once or two times a year, and the
operations are often announced by the police especially their inspector-general
who said that from a certain date, the police would go after motorists who have
features on their vehicles which are illegal.
But the
operations normally do not last or are effective; the police get some publicity
doing that but the general motorists can still go about their daily lives
driving their vehicles which have faulty or broken tail lights or illegal
features including small or tampered car registration numbers.
And they
had to wait until more than one and a half million motorists who had been
issued traffic summons but who had failed to pay them, yet, they were not
arrested, until now when the Malaysian police say they would go from house to
house to ferret them out.
Are they
saying that for real or it is just another sick joke? This is not the first
time they said they would do that.
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