The real tragedy in the recent municipal riots wasn’t the unexpected death of wrongdoer George Floyd. How could police have known that this dangerous-looking giant had an invisible respiratory problem? Rioters were itching for an excuse to unleash their appetites. Free at last to become savages.
We shouldn’t blame the police, who have been shackled and emasculated by Democratic Party mayors and governors. Police body cameras or “body worn video” are the insidious tools meant to intimidate law enforcement officers who have already developed centuries of tactics to protect both themselves and other citizens against violent criminals. No leeway is allowed. They must be polite and perfect at all times. No freedom to do their job as they see fit, as defined by their rigid and conscientious training.
There’s not a single individual on earth who can stand up to this kind of intimate scrutiny while at work. If body cameras somehow guarantee that those wearing them will be paragons of virtue or publicly accountable in everything they do and say, then why not mayors, governors, and news anchors as well?
Actually, news anchors are on camera. This didn’t stop them from taking the law into their own hands, without inquiry or trial, by declaring the police guilty of murdering George Floyd. The anchors then fomented insurrection by emotionally charging rioters with a “social justice” validation and self-righteousness. The small club of newscasters have become the only effective voice and public face allowed by those seeking to overthrow the elected presidency and America’s conservative heritage.
Leftist mayors and governors have been busy during COVID-19 closing down the economy, churches, schools, and other key institutions—creating an impression of chaos and anarchy that they hope broadcasters will make stick to the president. The recent sanctuary city riots were just more of the same. Let them wear the body cameras for the same reasons they make the police put them on.
Perhaps we could find out what caused the real recent tragedy: police were unable to do their job, unable to confront rioters, unable to do what was necessary to stop looters and general mayhem. Who gave the orders not to use any live ammo? That would have stopped any such rioting—just as it did at Kent State back in 1970 when white radicals thought they too could get away with increasing violence.
Rubber bullets and tear gas deter no one.
We can hardly blame the police themselves. They shouldn’t be forced to operate without guns on a level playing field with vicious rioters. Police aren’t chosen for being sociopathic and psychopathic bad guys. Cameras won’t even protect them, because visual evidence can always be interpreted so that black is white, and white is black. Marketing is supreme in our society, with 24/7 consumer fraud bilking the public of its hard-earned money, and making rioters lust. News anchors pound home the truth that they want people to know, with no interval to think otherwise–no different than other commercials loaded with social propaganda.
Mayors and governors in the worst states, often chosen simply for their good looks and trendy demeanor, were the ones who stopped police from doing their jobs. They should be the ones whose body cameras would reveal who they really are.
Some might feel that body cameras are good if you have nothing to hide. These people should volunteer to prove this point. Let them wear body cameras at home or on the job. Employers can pull out snippets to prove whatever they want to. It’s simply a matter of what you select and what point you want to support. Being out of context is hard for the public to see.
At home, did you say anything to your spouse or kids that you wouldn’t want broadcasted or used against you? What exactly is being human all about, anyway? At work, promotions and pay increases and ubiquitous “evaluations” can easily be rigged, just like mail-in ballots. So can the evidence of body cameras.
Jared Peterson, writing in today’s American Thinker, argues that there is no systemic racism in America, only a “systemic racism scam”:
“Racism in the US exists only in trace amounts, among the police and the general population, and the little that survives is not the cause of black America’s endless litany of unhappiness. The source of the American black despair lies within blacks themselves, their undeveloped abilities and widespread destructive life choices. But the first can never be whispered and second never be spoken.
“Cowardice leaves non-existent racism as the default explanation for black failure. And it’s all Trump’s fault and they’re all piling on: The feckless G. W. Bush, the ex-Defense Secretary Mattis, Drudge, the hoary, moss covered Carter, the corporations, the athletes, the airhead celebrities, the universities, and of course the media.”