Quote Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere View Post
Fascinating article bae.

Gimme, what would you do if a group of young men were gang raping a young girl. Or an elderly man was being assaulted? Or a store owner was being beaten and robbed? All things that happen all around the world.
Flowerseverywhere, you bring up an interesting point and yet another reason I have find living in the United States so difficult. Yes these things do happen in my world and I would be at a loss as to how to handle them to be quite honest with you. As I have posted numerous times and no one seems to want to process or deal with, I have witnessed my next door neighbors being brutally and viciously assaulted by the Phoenix police for doing nothing other than flying a Guatemalan flag on their property (though they were able to retaliate via the courts for a nice settlement, I will give you that). After having seen that I will never be able to trust American police again, no exceptions.

Put yourself in my shoes - please have that respect and put yourself in my shoes. Being lower income and having witnessed such, would you be running to the phone to call the police or would you think a good twenty to fifty times before taking the risk of voluntarily being vulnerable to a similar situation? The nightmare in America is that if you are lower income, you don't know what will happen when the cops arrive. So you just don't call as it is too much risk. And yes, this is going on all around America, and yes, America is that awful for some of it's citizens. Please rest assured this type of thinking/living is not at all limited to just myself. I'd be grateful for this, too - this type of thinking coupled with social media after Ferguson is hope for change in America's police going forward - perhaps. If not change, at least awareness and fear of the police spreading upwards in America. And I do believe more people going forward will retaliate - as they very well should - with more media attention being paid going forward - against the police in the courts nationwide for large settlements. This can only be a good thing and with the economy so horrible, successful settlements will only prompt more people to sue the police for their misconduct going forward. This can only be a good thing. Rob