Black lives, white lives, all lives?

 Police brutality is ugly, but unfortunately is a part of the necessity and most often is a nasty business called “policing”.

An elderly man pushed over by Cops in Buffalo, New York

 

by Victor Cherubim-June 06, 2020

 

We have heard, in fact seen on our screens, the disheartening, horrible, inhuman way George Floyd died recently in, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A, at the hands of the law enforcement Police Authority of this City.

 

He was not the first black person, for we have watched a decade of deaths that should never have happened. People the world over can rattle a litany of deaths at the hands of the law. Breonna Taylor, Ahaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and so many more. Each lost their lives, some at far too young an age.

 

Days ago, an elderly white man, said to be 75 years old was filmed on video during the end of a Black Lives Matter demo in Buffalo, New York, pushed over by Police. He was we are told, walking up to the Police in full riot gear and was unarmed. He fell down hitting his head on the concrete pavement. He lay motionless on the ground with blood running from his ear. Two Police Officers have now been suspended without pay. New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo called the incident, “wholly unjustified and utterly disgraceful.”

 

Human-elephant contact

 

In our own country, the human-elephant conflict too is on the increase. We are informed that plans are under way to track wild elephants, using like Coronavirus tracking devices on our mobile phones to “staying alert”.

 

A shocking 407 elephants and 122 humans have died recently. Villagers who have lived and shared their habit with wildlife for centuries, now blame our insensitivity to nature by creating sometimes unwanted massive infrastructure projects over the recent past at the cost of destroying elephant habitats, resulting in animals forced to enter villages in search of food.

 

It is easy for me to say about minimising human rights of man and animals is most important today. Life today after thousands dying of coronavirus is not only precious but equally precarious.

 

Each lost life, whether man or animal is life lost, life sacrificed at the alter of what we all call, “progress”. Is it progress or is it prejudice?

 

How can we help to bring back balance?

 

Some may argue killing or snaring an elephant, is survival. But what type of survival is it? We destroy the habitat in nature and call it, by our own name. We destroy the environment by selling sand from our riverbeds and climate change does the rest for us to suffer?

 

We do not support diversity and inclusion in society, especially the end to brutality of Black people, who are not black other than the colour of their skin. We create injustice

In society, by keeping living standards different by greed and we then use brutal force to curb a people’s riot. We use double standards, one for us, and one for the weak and vulnerable.

 

I agree that some riots are “created,” organised, man-made for ulterior purpose, to disrupt “civilised life?”

 

But there is a threshold of tolerance.

 

Police brutality

Police brutality is the wonton use of excessive force usually physical or psychological

 

Police brutality is ugly, but unfortunately is a part of the necessity and most often is a nasty business called “policing”. Law and order has to prevail, but the appropriate and

proportionate use of force is always a fine line and in the heat of conflict is often forgotten, but hardly forgiven.

 

Excessive and untrammelled brutality is never correct policing in any situation.