Never cared for him. Now that he is at the end of his office. I think he is being more raw. There's no 3rd nomination to be had... with trump in the hype along with Hillary, he's more or less Just a ghost in a white house until he actually disappears. But this speech balanced so much. Not to say we all don't think it or have said it ourselves. But to highlight someone who balanced it perfectly. Blacks getting killed? Unjust. Retaliation of cops being killed? Unjust. Do cops matter? Oh yes! I grew up in the hood where F the police was the motto, but when someone breaks into your house? You're hitting up 9-1-1. We need them. On the other side, I've seen unwarranted beat downs. I've been a victim of one myself. But I've also been treated tremendously well by cops.
The following is my personal story and you can skip all of the following and only care for the speech Obama gave, which may be, which is very probable to have been posted.. so for that i apologize, if it has... to not waste your time, here's my unique story, and if you don't care for it and have watched the speech, i have completely wasted your time... lol Sorry.
As someone who has been abused by the police without justification, i understand the outrage. In one hand, i remember when i asked the police to stop clubbing my brother who they had already subdued (He deserved it) they wouldn't stop. I eventually said "If you don't stop i'm going to report you" and upon that statement i was slammed to the floor. I had my arms ready to be handcuffed so they didn't say i was resisting. They proceeded to handcuff me and then shout "Stop resisting" and slammed my head into the floor 3 times. Once i got to the station in the holding tank a cop walked in and said "Have you ever been arrested before you assaulted a police officer tonight?" i yelled "What?"
They walked away and moments later i was summoned to speak to the police chief. She asked me "While staying in this facility do you fear for your life?" I replied "No." then she asked with outstretched words "At Annnnnnnny point during your arrest were you injured in annnnnnny way?" I thought to myself *If i say yes theyre going to say i assaulted a cop... fuq.* so i responded "No."
She said "GOOD ANSWER! :D Throw him back in the cell"
When i got to court there was no assault, just resisting arrest which i fought and got boiled down to "Disturbing the peace"
^ an example of a corrupt system.
However i remember when i was homeless and 18 i had bought some weed. A cop pulled me over after purchasing the weed. He asked if i had anything illegal. Seeing the probability of him finding it, i chose to be honest. I told him that i had some weed in my sock. When he asked me why i am buying drugs i told him "Look, i'm young, i'm homeless and i don't have much to live for.. this is one of the few things that makes me happy and i just got it after trying to scrape 10 dollars together all day." He confiscated my weed. Then wrote me a ticket for weed possession.
I was really bummed out. I got to my friends house who was letting me sleep on the couch that night and put my hands into my pocket to play with the lent that lied inside. Too my shocking surprise i found that my weed was still in my pocket.... When i showed up for court a couple weeks later they told me they had no record of a ticket for me....
^ tho what i was doing was "Bad" he showed me love by being compassionate to my situation.
^ Good cops exist. I've experienced the extremes to both ends.
If this makes any sense to you with all the racial hype, i encourage you to share.
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