Nowadays, imagine we live in a world where it’s prominent that unfair justice has been allowed by police officers to kneel on civilian’s heads and necks and think it’s OK because in their eyes they are doing a good deed and taking the crime off the streets, WRONG! And let me tell you why?
One evening last week, I was sitting with my mum in the
living room listening to the highlights of the 6pm ITV news and we both came
across the incident regarding a UK white police officer felt it was right to
apply pressure on the head and neck of a black man who was suspected in
possession of an offensive weapon, but the officer was not alone, there was
another officer who also helped in restraint of the suspect as he kneeled
to the ground shouting the words “Get off my neck”. Luckily, the man had minor
injuries to his wrists and neck, as you can imagine, this incident rapidly
circulated the whole of social media platform as people voicing their concerns
of racial justice.
Now, let’s take a step back and think about this incident
logically, none of these police officers took the initiative, no matter what
race or gender, to think about the pressure of kneeling on a person’s head and neck could cause fatal injury such
as suffocation, plus not to mention it was only a couple of weeks ago the entire world was horrified and disgusted to hear about the death of George
Floyd in Minneapolis, USA who unfortunately died from the same sort of
treatment at the hands of police officers who are supposed to “serve and
protect”. This feels like another game of police brutality. Tell me why is this
happening again? What is the world coming too, this is not a game! You would
have thought the police would have learnt their lesson but not cause more
trouble with the black community.
Sources from the MET Police admitted: “this is not what has
been taught in training”. From this statement, I want to believe what has been
said, but I’m currently having a tough time trusting the MET police as they are
imitating the same sort of action which took place in Minneapolis, USA several
weeks ago. Yes, we’ve heard the two officers will be scrutinized for their
actions and the justice being taken is one officer has been suspended however
the other officer has been removed from police duties but no suspension has
been taken at this time. Is this right TRUE/FALSE?
In my opinion, more forceful justice needs to be actioned in
the future such as officers who are guilty of inflicting police brutality need
to be stripped from the police force as effective and immediate. MET Police
like this should not be entitled to wear a badge as they are going against
everything that was originally taught, the words which the police today need to
remember is “SERVE AND PROTECT”. This has been forgotten. Regardless if they
caught a suspect, they still should protect him/her and restrain them the
correct way instead of causing harm.
Going forward, I cannot stress enough the outrage of the incident, other past incidents which police brutality have been responsible,
there are still challenges as a nation we need to work on and face up to and if
these incidents keep on happening, it will continue to affect the trust we have
in our MET police officers. It makes me think they are NOT trustworthy when it
comes to the black community.
In truth, it is important and imperative that the MET police
need to review their techniques and tactics concerning to restrain a person no
matter what colour or race or we are just repeating history instead of
correcting it.
