I find it so sad that after 50 years, we can watch videos of civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and still face many of the same issues they talked about.
Stories?about high-profile events that occurred in?Ferguson, Missouri and New York City go far beyond just one or two examples — they speak to a certain mentality that is ever-present within police departments nationwide.
Police Brutality goes far beyond race;?Kristiana Coignard’s story attests to that. It’s about power over those with little to no power in our society. It’s something that’s never going to change until the American people start demanding more from our government.
It’s true that we need the police to do the job that most of us could or would not do. At the same time, we also need police officers who respect their fellow citizens?and who look for opportunities to improve the communities they?serves. They can do this through more community based policing and volunteer work within the communities they police, not just by arresting or fining people.
Until we see those kinds of changes in the police community, videos like this will continue to have more and more meaning every year.
