Is It Really White Cops vs Black Youth? Or Is It 'Blue Uniforms' Against Black Youth?

     Of course 'Blue Uniforms' is not meant literally, since not all of them wear uniforms; it's just a descriptive phrase that has been used to mean cops for as long as I can remember. (So we're talking half a century here, folks.)
     I have to admit, after reading this story I'm not sure if the world has actually gone this far out of its collective mind, or if there are those who are trying hard to make themselves look innocent by making others look guilty... Somehow it just doesn't seem like it can be true to me, or could it be that I just don't want to believe that in my lifetime I'm actually seeing something like this? Could I just not want to believe that "an officer of the law", a member of those hired "to protect and serve" could yell "Film this then!" after hitting the boy so hard that he was knocked unconscious? Forget the fact that these 'officers' were black; the issue here, IMO, is that these people are supposed to be members of the force that we should be looking to for help, and for protection! We should not have to worry about if we get stopped for a ticket are we going to get tased, or pulled out of the car and beaten up because we didn't answer clearly enough, or quickly enough! To make matters worse, it seems that elderly age,  physical disability, or an inability to understand instructions (non-English speaking), these things make no difference at all.

NYPD Officer Allegedly Knocks Out Cigarette-Smoking Teen

The officer reportedly thought that 17-year-old Marcel Hamer was smoking marijuana.

      By: Breanna Edwards

Posted: Oct. 9 2014 1:46 PM

                                      

     A Brooklyn teenager was allegedly knocked out by a New York City police officer for smoking a cigarette, the Brooklyn Paper reports. Video footage captured on a cellphone shows the plainclothes officer punching Marcel Hammer, even as he lay on the ground in a gutter trying to protect his face,    saying, “It’s just a cigarette, sir.” 

     “Do you wanna get f--ked up?” the officer asked the teen.

     “Yeah, get it on film,” the officer says to Marcel’s friends.

      According to the Brooklyn Paper, Marcel was walking home from school with his friends when a police officer emerged from a police van and said Marcel was smoking marijuana. The friends started to run, but Marcel eventually stopped. When the officer caught up with him, he knocked Marcel to the ground, according to the news site.

     The actual blow that rendered the teen unconscious is not fully visible in the footage, but Marcel’s friends can be heard protesting in the background. Soon, according to the paper, another undercover cop comes on the scene, helping the first officer handcuff the seemingly unconscious teen.

The incident, which occurred on June 4, according to the Brooklyn Paper, is reportedly being investigated by the New York City Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.

     According to the boy’s family, the 17-year-old has suffered memory loss, dizziness and headaches ever since the assault. “He is always complaining of headaches, and he cannot remember things,” his mother, Mary Hamer, said. “He used to be pretty sharp, and now I am helping him.”

And so another one is lost.