Merle Rutledge - Part 2 of Forget the Danville, Va and Pitts Co NAACP and SCLC Recent Newspaper article about How to Stop Crime with Prayer and the direct infusion by the newspaper of Danvillie, Va Police Department and its back up judges and prosecutors help in fighting crime. Merle Rutledge Jr responds - I respect the churches and its leaders for trying to pray away crime, inside of a church, and away from outside of the church in which crimes breeds. However, crime also occurs inside the church, so start praying for yourself first and than for others next. A job of a police officer is to protected and prevent crime. However, my studies have shown it has manufactured more crimes than has been committed in the City of Danville, Va. These enforcement practices are concentrated on quality of life arrest. I remember watching The Wire. A officer responded on making petty arrests on minor offenses by stating a mans beverage is his business. However, this targeted enforcement is only done in high populated African American neighborhoods. It is not a crime to live in these areas nor does it raise a level of suspicion because you choose to do so. The Michael Elder case with the Danville, Va SCU officer Thompson is a prime example of the exposure to flaws with any system or department in government. I personally would rather be surrounded by family than unknown strangers that are my enemy. To Avon Keen, SCLC, local chapter Pitts Co/Danville, NAACP and Willie Fitzgerald, when is the last time you been to been in our neighborhood? You should come much more often to celebrate in its success, than to only be there in its worse time. We spend more time saying stop the violence instead of more time in increasing peace, success, and showing the highlights of our community. We continue to promote death instead of the real quality of life. In conclusion, we have more grandmothers and grandfathers that have done more than these NAACP white men in black skin to keep our streets safe. The NAACP has came to represent the white man way of getting out of bullshit. The first thing a white man does when they have a problem with the black community is contact the NAACP and they get a call, response, and a carefully crafted plan on how to give a statement to get them off the hook. When is the last time, (African Americans) in this area can remember contacting the NAACP to help them with a problem and see serious action? We all use to remember as kids having Uncles and Aunts that was not related, but when they spoke we straighten up and listen. Why does people that can not move or do as easily as we do still have more energy than those that is paid to do nothing. We need a gang of real leadership because you represent the crisis that we blame everyday for doing nothing. — with Merle Rutledge and Michael Elder.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:05:41 +0000
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