The Streets Are Watching – Know Your Rights.
Growing up, I was taught that the police are my friends. I told Erica, “the police are your friends”; I tell Robert “The police are your friends” and I will tell Julia the same thing.
Police are human beings and have feelings just like everyone else. It was never embedded into my mind that The Bill of Rights and our Constitution were created to protect the innocent, as well as the guilty.
It’s very important to ASSERT YOUR RIGHTS.
Growing up “Brady Bunch” style, where everything that I observed was lawful and appeared to be just, fair, right, without corruption, I was mistakenly left with the impression that it was true for everyone. I don’t believe I was sheltered, but I didn’t understand that there were people from different ethnic and/or economic background were treated in a manner different from me. I was simply naive.
I’ll be 50 years old in July, and I’m just now, the past couple of years realizing how important it is to assert my rights regardless of innocence.
I believe that when we sit back and watch someone bully another person, we’re just as guilty as the bully. Watching, because becoming involved is uncomfortable; ignoring a wrong, because it’s easier than helping, are unjustifiable excuses. However, if someone with you is dependent on your presence, definitely give consideration to that fact.
Sometimes bad things happen in the process of something good being done for someone else, you have no way of knowing the outcome. Coulda, shoulda, woulda – you do what you gotta do, and if you did your best, and others are in judgment of you, that’s their problem, don’t make it yours.
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