Wear the Damn Body Cam!

Wear the Damn Body Cam!

We still feel the sting suffered by Rodney King, we still see the cops doing their own thing and we still hear the angels sing!  We have attempted to discuss how trust is a bust yet they look to throw us under the bus and so we now have a sore that's full of pus.  Our children continue to be marred and scarred as they are put down hard as if to be feathered and tarred!

We do not rest because we stand in protest of each and every deadly arrest.  The badge shines brightly and more than slightly on the policeman's chest.  So it is that I ask the question as to why an officer would not want to wear a damn body cam when it would provide proof of his truth.  Why would you aim at our youth only to again fire your gun to only have a story about what was said and done?  You have something that would exonerate you and that would show us that you are not at odds with properly doing your job.  Doing so would give you the ability to walk away with us having little if anything to say but you seem to not want us to see such a day.  Know that we're not just going to sit down and pray!

It's not that we choose to believe what we perceive.  It has been captured in full view that thing you do and so we know not to be alone without a cell phone.  We know to have one wherever we go and I now have come to heave to believe that we too should swear to wear a damn body cam!  One way or another there is a truth that we are going to uncover and it is one that we have seen to be obscene as blood marks the spot of every crime scene where it is a young brother of color.

If overall the officers of today showed a willingness to wear a damn body cam then this would go a long way towards letting us know that they feel us and that they too have concerns about what kills us.  Another story we cannot trust is yet another one of us biting the dust just because it is perceived to be believed we commit crimes all of the time.  Do you not hear the chimes?  It is a bell that yells of how another tree was felled because a cop was chopping wood as hard as he could!  The explanation is that he was just following proper procedure with which to protect and serve and so another bullet has struck a nerve where the perpetrator got what he allegedly deserved!

So it is that we experience another news report where another grand jury has chosen to abort the court.  The views of the opposing side again have been denied and so another brother has died, another cop is not tried and so another mother has cried.  This is why we still feel the sting suffered by Rodney King.  This is why we do not want cops to keep on doing their own thing, this is why at another funeral we can hear the angels sing and this is why the police should wear the damn body cam!

Orrin K. Loftin, Explorer

Copyright?  When the cops loudly protest to request the damn body cam

December 29^th, 2014