Now, most people don't think that police cruelty isn't relevant to their lives. They believe that it isn't a thing in their current environment. I used to believe that same ideology. I'd say things like, " Oh, police brutality is only a thing that happens in (insert town name)". This weekend my previous set of beliefs was utterly shattered in front of my eyes.
It happened at a party. I was just chilling with my good friends. You know having a good time and what not. During this event I headed outside just to get some air and help a bro who had way too much to drink. While trying to console my friend back into the world of the semi sober, I saw something drive past on the street. It was a cop car. Of course. Fucking typical. Always ruining events where people ruin themselves. But, anyways I run back in the house and alert everyone to the ever present threat that would ultimately shut down the good times of the night. The reaction was as expected, everyone freaked the fuck out. It was a kind of interesting sight. People were scrambling around in a drunken mass trying to come up with some plan to get out of being thrown in jail. I didn't really care what happened because I was nowhere near drunk, so I sat on a big leather couch and watched the chaos ensue. Some people stuck together and planned to wait out the police invasion; others just bolted and got the fuck out of there. I didn't really feel like leaving so I stayed.
After a good 15-20 minutes one of my friends came through the back door and announced to everyone that they had to leave or else their cars would be ticketed. Since everyone there was a college student and could not afford a parking ticket, they left en masse. I followed everyone out because my friend who drove me was literally parked in front of the house, so you know we had to bail. As soon as the whole menagerie entered the street to get to their cars, the cops came at us. The pigs sorted through the crowd presumably trying to find people who were to drunk to drive. I didn't see them stop a single person who was drunk. And let me tell you there were some really drunk motherfuckers that were leaving the party. The only person that they stopped was a good friend of mine . Now my friend is black (or whatever the politically correct term is). These bitch ass Palm Beach cops immediately set their sights on my friend and start fucking with him. Instant profiling and police fuckery. They gave him absolutely no quarter. They proceeded to insult and humiliate him by calling him names and degrading his humanity. After dishing out a whole load of wretched bullshit, the pigs began to question him. This wasn't the type of questioning that normal cops take part in. The questioning was more reminiscent of the type of interrogating from the movie Super Troopers. It was just a bunch of pointless and aggravating questions. My friend was very cooperative, or at least that's what I perceived. This hassling went on for a good thirty minutes. Absolutely relentless. Both of these so called officers didn't pay attention to anybody else during this time. They literally focused all of their energy on my friend . It was bullshit. I almost went over to the cops and fought both of them. Of course that would have ended badly so I didn't go for it.
I'll agree that this wasn't the classic, well-known case of police cruelty. Nobody got beat to death, nobody got shot. But, it was cruelty nevertheless. A minority was picked out and verbally abused. Now, the moral of this story is that police can be shitty and racist shitsacks. This cruelty can happen anywhere. I'm glad that I was enlightened to this fallacy of the justice system, because now I can do things about it. I can fight against the so called authority figures who simply target certain individuals because of their skin color. I want these "officers" usurped from their positions. These people shouldn't be able to wield such power within society.
As N.W.A. so ambitiously said, "FUCK THE POLICE".
