faith will lead me on

OK, that's it


A tipping point has been reached in the Policemen-Murdering-Citizens phenomenon, with the South Carolina shooting of Walter Scott.  That is it.  That's enough.


It's Time


Our justice system needs thorough reform; President Obama needs to begin the process, and the next president needs to continue it and conclude the job.


"Only A Pawn in Their Game"


Mr. Slager seems like the villain, but think about it, he's just two things --


1.  The one "caught on tape," and most recent in a long line, or pattern, of this abusive, criminal behavior, and


2.  The product of a system which, it would appear, is vastly corrupt.


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What seems like "billions" of citizens, Reader-Commenting:


-- "Video, especially cellphone video, has changed the cop brutality game 180 degrees."  [there should BE NO "brutality game" - that's sick, this is America]


-- "The Chief of Police [in North Charleston, S.C.] should be praised for doing the right thing.  The mayor, too.  So many times these type of people will just blindly stand behind and support their wrong-doing officers."


-- (REPLY)  "They didn't do the right thing until the video surfaced."


-- "Asset forfeiture and federal grant money have had a perverse effect on police department decision making.  Violence against the non-violent has been 'incentivized.'"


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The job which police and highway patrol people should be doing is


Keeping the peace and protecting citizens


Not


pestering the public.


And certainly not harassing or abusing or KILLING - ANYONE.


(Why do we even have to SAY this???!!!!)


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And security guards all across this country do their jobs every day with no weapons at all --


No guns


No tasers


No pepper spray.


------------------- If security guards can do it, so can highway patrolmen and policemen no-brainer...


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David in Portland: 
"This is a nation-wide police culture that has given itself the right to be judge, jury and executioner and then lie about it, and the message that we need to internalize as a society is that police statements are of no more veracity than that of a typical defendant."


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It's horrible and upsetting; until last week the thought that a policeman or any law enforcement person would lie had never entered my mind.  (Wouldn't that be perjury or something..."  It's crazy)


People get upset -- one Reader in Canada commented-in, seething, calling America a "cesspool of white trash."


------------------ Yeehrks.  Chill dude, eh...


(He spelled cesspool, "sesspool" ... but -- Aaaahhhhmmm -- not-gonna-tellim...)


(I re-printed that here, but I don't approve of that phrase...so -- setting the "trash-talk" aside...)


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Highway patrol people and police can do their jobs just fine without guns.  And they should start tomorrow.


No guns.


No tasers.


No pepper spray.


If they don't want to work weapon-free, there are security guards across this country who might like to apply for those jobs:


Salary


Pension


Union protection. ...


Mel Farrell in New York commented:  Police departments all over this nation are out of control.  They quite obviously believe they can kill and maim with complete impunity.


If that bystander had not been there, this murder would never be known, and a killer in a police uniform would be patrolling the streets, looking for his next victim.


"We the People" had better wake up, real soon.


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Sitting here in limbo
But I know it won't be long
Sitting here in limbo
Like a bird without a song
Well, they're putting up a resistance
But I know that my faith will lead me on


Sitting here in limbo
Waiting for the dice to roll
Yeah, now, sitting here in limbo
Got some time to search my soul
Well, they're putting up a resistance
But I know that my faith will lead me on


I don't know where life will lead me
But I know where I have been
I can't say what life will show me
But I know what I have seen
Tried my hand at love and friendship
But all that is past and gone
This little boy is movin' on


Sitting here in limbo
Waiting for the tide to flow








Sitting here in limbo
Knowing that I have to go
Well, they're putting up a resistance
But I know that my faith will lead me on


I don't know where life will take me
But I know where I have been
I don't know what life will show me
But I know what I have seen
Tried my hand at love and friendship
That is past and gone
And now it's time to move along


Gonna lead me on now
Meanwhile, they're putting up resistance
But I know that my faith will lead me on
Sitting in limbo, limbo, limbo
Sitting in limbo, limbo, limbo
Sitting in limbo, limbo, limbo
Meanwhile, they're putting up a resistance But I know that my faith will lead me on


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{"Sitting in Limbo" - written by Jimmy Cliff and recorded at Muscle Shoals.
Album:  Another Cycle, 1971.
Label:  Island.}


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