HAVE WE REACHED THE TIPPING POINT IN NORTH AMERICA? THESE ARE BOTH SHOCKING & AMAZING TIMES

For many years I have written on my other blog the "Waterloo Region Advocate" (www.waterlooregionadvocate.blogspot.com) about social issues including incompetent and biased courts as well as police violence and stupidity albeit primarily in Ontario and Waterloo Region. Make no mistake while we are not as bad as the U.S. we too have serious problems with the training and management of our police officers. The real problem is their management and that comes from our regional councillors. They generally have a sweetheart arrangement with senior police officers which means hands off and no criticism of each group by the other. What a way to run a railroad! Both budgets and behaviour are out of control. We also have the old style biases and us against them mindset. A young man (Beau ?) was shot repeatedly and to death on the front step of his apartment building on Brybeck Cres. several years ago. He was having a mental health crisis. Just recently a certain darling of the police force thought it was just a dandy idea to shoot repeatedly at the back of a fleeing burglary suspect. That's right a burglary suspect who was unarmed at the time and NOT threatening police ot the public with physical harm. Multiple shots later and he dropped the suspect with a single bullet to the back of his leg. A local genius judge (Skarica) praised the darling officer and a local prosecutor declined to prosecute multiple charges laid by the Ontario Special Investigations Unit (SIU). Yes reform is badly needed here. .................................................................................................................. Currently professional sports are in a hiatus as basketball, baseball, soccer and hockey players have all decided that enough is enough. American police clearly have the training and political support to literally demand instant obedience to their orders upon pain of death. It doesn't matter how serious or how minor the alleged infractions, if the suspect is black and unarmed, and non-threatening that does not matter. If a police officer (likely white) orders the black suspect to jump, then the suspect either jumps or asks how high. Any other response is grounds for shooting him and as the police have gotten away with that behaviour for decades it has continued. Our authorities, courts, senior police management and most importantly politicians at the local and state levels have all been complicit. Shame on them all. Under those circumstances protests both peaceful and violent are incredibly restrained considering that police murders of black citizens are in my opinion a form of genocide. The absolutely only time that lethal force may be used is when an officer is facing imminent, serious threat of death or severe bodily harm. Everything else is the police becoming judge, jury and executioner. I sure as hell never gave my police or anybody else's that authority and neither have American citizens of whatever skin colour. ......................................................................................................... American authorities are on notice by the citizens that they rule. End police violence and brutality immediately or face the consequences.