Welcome to my world~A very personal diary update

Last week I reported someone I loved was racially profiled by the police.

I had to calm down and do a lot of praying before writing this diary. Yesterday I received the kind of news every black mother, daughter, sister, aunt, grandmother, god mother, cousin dreads. Someone I love was racially profiled by the people who are paid to protect and serve us. Contrary to popular opinion, largely due to media driven stereotypes, all young black men are not thugs, pimps and criminals, nor do they all look alike.

The young man in question is the son of a very dear friend of mine. I've known him since he was an infant. His only crime was being a young black man between the ages of 18 and 24 years of age. He has filed an official complaint against the off duty officer. This is his side of the story. On Saturday, February 5th, Bed-Stuy resident, Kameron Walker, said he was assaulted by a group of men, as he walked down Halsey Street, between Thompkins and Throop Avenues.

Walker was heading home at approximately 7:00 pm after leaving nearby Royal Rib House restaurant where he went to get food.
Walker, a 28-year-old black man, said the white men surrounded him and he heard one say, "Let's get him." He immediately began to panic, thinking he was going to be robbed.

He was told to get on the ground and did as he was told. Walker said it was then that things turned ugly for him.
"Next thing I know, one puts handcuffs on me, kind of pulls me up by my waist, then puts me back down with my face in a pile of snow," said Walker.
He said, after he was cuffed, one of the men shoved his face forcefully into the snow, causing bruises and cuts on his cheek.

Immediately after that, the group pulled him up and started asking him questions, saying that they were looking for a violent man who fit his description.
"This is the first time that I realized that they were cops, even though they still didn't identify themselves," Walker alleged.
Eventually, they took his information and let him go. But Walker is extremely upset by the incident, and has retained a lawyer and is filing a CCRB (Criminal Complaint Review Board) notice against the City.

"You know, I'm really torn up by what happened. I've never been in cuffs before; I've never broken the law, and then, this happens," said Walker. "I just want them to know that's not how you handle things."
Kameron's lawyer, Edward Wilford, said police harassment is frequent in the city, but what Kameron can expect is that the city will probably just settle.

Patch has reached out to the local precinct and NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI) for comment, but neither has yet to respond.

 This kind of behavior by those who are sworn to protect and defend must stop. This is what peter s. said in the comments;

If this story surprises you then you are very naive. This kind of thing is not uncommon. Unfortunately for all his efforts, Mr. Walker will not see justice. The only harassment incidents that get anywhere are the ones caught on video. Even then the police are usually exonerated or dealt with in a most gentle manner. They are free to return to their homes in the suburbs where their friends and families believe they are kind & loving heroes who serve the public with honor and professionalism. Only we get to see the monsters they become when they report for duty in our neighborhoods.

I hate to say it, but peter might be right (no pun), we saw what happened in Birmingham.

And this provides us all another real-time, real-world example of why we need our next U.S. Supreme Court Justice to be a Liberal, and for a host of Liberal appointments to our Nation's U.S. District and Circuit Courts. Period.

Amen and Amen.

Houston, we've got a problem.

Houston's mayor and police department were on the defensive Friday, two days after graphic video came out showing several police repeatedly kicking and beating a 15-year-old burglary suspect as he lay on the ground.

Birmingham has the same problem. But it's not racial profiling.

There is no justice like injustice. 

God help America.