FYI

According to an article The Wall Street Journal website, the Supreme Court overturned the ruling that says the police cannot interrogate a person without the presence of an attorney. Now, my first reaction was "That's some Bull@#$^" because I'm fairly certain that there are officers who do some underhanded things to get a confession (not because I watch police dramas and movies, but because its human nature). My next reaction was "Okay, so what, you can interrogate me all you want to, but I don't have to say anything and I'm not confessing to something I did not do!" Now, I think that my final reaction to this is a mixture of the two. This is bull@#$% because there are people who, after intense bullying and threatening, will confess to crimes they did not commit, and the original ruling gave them a little protection against that. Now, I'm not naive enough to believe that true criminals find protection from that as well, but punishing the innocent does not seem fair to me. So, what can be done? I'm not sure, but I don't think that the president can overturn the Court's decision, so petitioning him maybe fruitless. Perhaps I can contact my state's representatives and they could help in some way? I was never a fan of my Political Science class, so I'm not very knowledgeable on the steps one can, and should, take in a situation such as this. But there has to be something that can be done...

Your thoughts on this?

Doing my part to shine light on injustice...

While checking out blogs and news sites, I found this news story about a 15 year old girl being beaten by a Seattle police officer. The girl was in a holding cell and when she kicked her shoe off at the officer, he goes off and attacks her. In the video posted below, it's reported that the girl called the officer names. This GROWN MAN could not handle the name calling and ATTACKS her. I don't care what she allegedly said, there is ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE!!!! She could have called his mama a stank ho and it would not being reason enough for him to ATTACK her! We have to stay informed about these crimes...if we can get up in arms about the NY Post and that racist cartoon they published last week, then we should definitely do the same for crimes like this! Check out the You Tube clip below...also read this article for more information on the story (click here).

Shining a little light on this...

Could this be another situation where a police officer went way too far? I think so, but I want to share this so other people are made aware that injustice is still out there. People are walking around thinking that the battle has been won simply because Obama won the presidency; that's not the case. We still have a long and difficult road ahead of us....please read this article about the death of Billey Joe Johnson and, if so moved, click here to sign a petition for a thorough investigation of this young man's death.

POLICE FATALLY SHOOT UNARMED MAN - Laying Face Down and Shot in The Back! CAUGHT ON VIDEO!

This man was handcuffed and face-down on the ground! What, I ask, were the BART officers thinking when they murdered that man! Thank goodness for technology, because without it I don't think I would have heard anything about this. Those officers need to be held accountable for killing that young man. I'm always so surprised when something this happens and sometimes I question myself for being surprised...I think "It happens often enough, so why am I surprised?"...then I tell myself that I should always be surprised because when I'm not, it means I've become desensitized to this violence. Thanks to blacksolutions on Twitter for sending this my way. I just want to do my part to spread this story around.