Recently, Faysal Mohamed age 17 was arrested while playing basketball with a friend. The police officer, while arresting the teen boy, told him that if he tried to run away, he would break the boy's legs before he could run. Mohamed had no intension of running, and made it clear he would cooperate. Although he was willing to cooperate, he was curious as to why he was arrested in the first place while officers searched his car. Mohamed asked the officer, and the officer replied,"Because I feel like arresting you." Mohamed's friend got all of the arrest on video, posting it on the Internet and his Twitter account. The boys eventually found out they were suspected of stealing the car they were driving, but the officer who arrest Mohamed was so disrespectful and used profanities, which is against what he was taught in the force. Of course, the police had the boys on the suspect list, and the other officers were being very polite and rational to do the search, but the one officer was disrespectful the whole time.
This has been seen way too much. Recently a woman was disrespected by 1 officer out of the others and was arrested because she wanted police to teach her kids a little lesson about stealing (which some parents actually do amongst other teaching by police that have to do with certain crimes). If course, many police officers really do believe in justice and equality for all, and do not think crime has to do with race, but the fact that there's still officers being extremely ride and cruel to people die to their race is unbelievable and unacceptable.
I hope the racist police officer loses his job over this. Police are (supposed to) protect people, not blatantly pull over, brutalize, or even kill them based on suspicions. I also hope that Faysal Mohamed was at least released after all this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteThat's extremely unfair. The police officer wasn't doing his job and it's sad how there's still officers like that. Racism needs to come to an end and this isn't helping the situation.
ReplyDeletePolice are here to serve us, not the other way around. How dare they verbally abuse these boys like that. This is so disrespectful, especially in a country that emphasizes so much on our own personal freedoms.
ReplyDeleteThere are some police that abuse their power and those are the ones we always hear about on social media. I wish we could hear some of the positive things the police are doing for our society.
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