Thursday, April 2, 2009
Blog #7
My reaction to the video of the police officer pulling over the NFL running back incident really shocked the heck out of me. First of all I thought that the police officer even considering what was going on during the situation had no compassion for what was going on in another human beings life. For me I think that the officer has to first understand that a mother is dying at the moment, but the officer decides not to even take that into consideration. It's almost inhumane how the officer talked to Ryan in the video. Next I would like to emphasize on Ryan's situation, he was probably scared, yet angry and emotional because his mother in Law was dying, yet here he is being harassed by the cop and being held from going to see her. Then again he is just a human being and reacting in the way he was, he was distressed. The officer who is trained to react and control situations like that could of done a better job at handling the situation instead of writing up a traffic violation based on the person's skin color, what vehicle they were driving, and racial profiling. The way the officer handled the situation was very poorly done, if he could swap being in the shoes of Ryan then he would then be able to see the other side of the story. I think that they both had a communication error between each other, but from what and how I see it, it was a disturbing scenery all together.
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Agreed, a disturbing scene altogether. There were a lot of factors going on, as we just spoke about in class. I think that the (former) officer could have made different decisions. I think that race played a part in it. I think that the department has some responsibility for what happened, because they are the ones who trained him. The result is very sad, for everybody involved, except, I think the department is getting off too easy.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was poorly handle. The police are full of incompetent people; I’ve even seen the Sheriff's department hiring 20 year olds at Wednesday night market. I think the police needs stricter codes of conduct and more training.
ReplyDeleteI agree with every thing thay you stated hear...as you already heard my story in class...I know exactly how he felt becasue I have been in simalar situations with cops most of them don't even care to listen and that's part of their job. I do agree that he treated them with the lowest of humanity...and the fact that he was young and new to the force has a lot to with it as well as race...great response!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. If he would have just considered what they were saying the situation would have been a lot better. But he didn't the police officer needed to know that they were not going to be in the right frame of mind to be put throught a traffic ticket when they told him their family member was dying. And also they were not a danger to his safety they are a family at a hospital going to see there dying mother. He could have waited if he really wanted to give him a ticket. I think race played a factor because I don't think he would have done the same thing to a white family. Good post
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. It should have a better ending. No matter what job we are doing, or what rules we should follow for our jobs, we are human being. We are not robots, we have our own thoughts, own ideas, and comment sense. I really disagree that they said the policeman just did what he should do. In my opinion, the thing a human being should do is to understand the others, to think about the others, not life like a robot, only know follow the rules that have already set up. Rules are made up by human beings; that’s not the things never can’t be changed.
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