Once again, the nation is traumatized by horrible video of police brutally beating to death a Black man. Need I note the victim was Black? Would we be less or more traumatized if the victim were white?
But the rule seems to be the victims are Black.
Everyone sees there is a problem. Everyone wants to fix it. But how?
The first question in the pursuit of a solution invariably is, “What is wrong with the system?”
How about we start this time by asking a different question. What is wrong with the men who did it?
The shocking video certainly doesn’t give us the whole story. What were the circumstances that lead to the police apprehending this man, forcing him defenseless on the ground and beating him to death? Can we imagine any circumstance that would justify this behavior?
Suppose somehow all this occurred under the radar. That these policemen beat this man to death, but no one found out about it.
Could they live with themselves? Could they just go home to their families after doing a day’s work without a second thought that their law enforcement work left a man dead with little justification why this happened?
We in the pro-life movement ask how women can destroy the child in their womb and live with themselves. Those who rationalize it say they don’t see this unborn child as life.
But can we say these police did not see Tyre Nichols as a living man?
When these incidents get spun as racial, the answer comes forth that racists do not see those whom they hate as human. There was a historic data point in this regard in our nation’s history in the Dred Scott decision.
But in this case, the police officers were Black.
How about if we ask if each of those policemen felt they live in a world with a Creator and that every human being is a creation made in that Creator’s image? If they believed this, could they have done what they did?
Rep. Jim Jordan summed it up well saying, “I don’t know there is anything you can do to stop the kind of evil we saw in that video.”
Something very bad has happened in our country.
This nation was founded as a free country under God, not as a “system.” The Constitution is an operating manual creating the basic structure of government and to assure that it would be kept limited and not interfere with citizens taking personal responsibility and living free.
Yes, it began with the horrible reality of slavery. But this reflected the sin of man and not a systematic flaw in the country.
George Washington said it, and I quote him all the time, that there is no freedom without religion.
But today we are going in the opposite direction. We want to use courts and legislatures to produce systematic answers to our lives rather than turning to our parents and our pastors for eternal principles. The answer is not in the system; it is in ourselves.
Regarding the police, they need more personal responsibility for their behavior.
One path to this is getting rid of qualified immunity, which shields them from exposure to lawsuits. Qualified immunity allows police to violate constitutional rights of others without concern they will be sued. Per this judge-created doctrine, as long as there is not another identical precedent, with all the same facts, police are immune from being sued.
Unions protect policemen with a track record of infractions, and then qualified immunity protection allows them to go out and do it again.
This is the most important technical reform that can improve police behavior.
But we must remember, good men will produce good results even in a bad system.
But bad men, even in the most perfectly designed system, will produce bad results.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Sorry, but there is just as much blatantly illegal actions against whites as well as Black on white crime usually at 90%. Blacks know how to use Black privilege as they have done for over 50 years. Maybe if blacks did not commit over 40 to 50% of the crime there would be less terrible acts like this one. People forget that policemen deal with the dregs of society, and eventually it affects some of them in the wrong way of course. And why are we not so angry that millions of law breakers have come across our borders and caused death and evil to Americans, who cause deaths by fentanyl, helping the Communist Chinese and the sad misery of sex slavery and human trafficking, on and on We have a moral problem, not a race problem or even a police problem as much as we have a moral problem.
Show respect to the police, and they may do the same to u.They are treated as the criminal,not as law enforcement to help. If u disrespect them,what the hell do u think they are going to do.A little common sense can go a long way, even for a dummy.
Respect should be given where it is due but any cop who protects a bad cop is just as bad for not stopping the bad behavior. Eliminate Qualified Immunity.
Eliminate Qualified Immunity. Cops break laws and violate citizens rights all the time and their departments protect them with Qualified Immunity. Eliminate Qualified Immunity!
A complete misrepresentation of Qualified Immunity. If you can’t do better than this consider yourself unfollowed.
Interesting seeing a “pro-life” article that actually espouses concern for humans beyond birth. I stopped calling people who self-identify as “pro-life” a long time ago and refer to them as “pro-forced birth” because there didn’t seem to be any concern for humans after birth. In fact it appeared to be just the opposite, as some of the comments reflect. The “pro-life” movement professed to be based on Christianity yet there seemed to be very little reflection of Christ values and much hate and hypocrisy, again see some of the comments. If the “pro-life” movement actually starts to show concern for humans beyond birth- all humans – then they will become a force for good.
AS LONG AS WE DO NOT ENFORCE OUR LAWS, AND CRIMINALS HAVE NO RESPECT FOR OUR LAWS, WHO REALLY WAN’TS TO BE A POLICE MAN. THESE CRIMINALS HAVE NO RESPECT. OUR POLICE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOBS.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR POLICE FORCE. CRIMINALS NEED TO SHOW RESPECT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.BUT IT SEEMS EVEN OUR GOVERNMENT TAKES SIDES WITH LAW BRAKERS.
JUST LOOK AT BIDENS OPEN BORDER.