Thursday, December 4, 2014

To Video or Not to Video that is the Question!

1-Yesterday... pp, CH and CM, all stepped in shit again. Without knowledge of the total disclosure of the Staten Island Grand Jury(GJ) decision not to indict a New York police officer, for the death of a NY citizen. Eric Gardner, the victin, was a unlicensed "loose" cigarette street vendor, with a wrap sheet. What else was the victim selling to support a family of six kids? This time the confrontation and take down was videoed by a third person. Looked like a four on one, with one or two police helpers adding to pile-on at the end. Looks bad for NY police when just viewing the video. 2-Each state has it own requlations on seating a GJ. New York, in this case had 23 members. There were 12 whites and 9 non-whites. With all the evidence, including the video (I suppose), and the testimony of several eyewitnesses the GJ could not get a vote of 12 to indict, so the DA voiced finds to the authories and media. 3-pp, CH, CM took the bait hook line and sinker. 3-Earlier this week, a huge group met at the WH, that was chaired by pp, came to some tentative resolve to counter the cops Vs minorities neighborhood problems. 4-One remedy coming out of the above meeting, every police officer should be equipped with a personal clip-on TV camera patched into local police headquarters for record keeping. 5-On that same day the National Debt zoomed past $ 18 T and counting. 6-Oh, at the above meeting a SWAG estimate was offered, the DOJ would need $260,000 to purchase and activate personal video cameras on 50,000 officers. That figures out to be ~5K / cop. Now there are 630,000 cops on America's streets that would need cameras, the cost rockets up a tad to $3,275,000. Where is the dollars coming in light of article 5 above. 7-I do believe congress must re-think the camera deal in light of what the GJ viewed in Staten Island with the rest of the evidence and testimony. 8-Enforce the rule and regulations that are already on the books, that existed before HOPE and Change rode into DC.

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