[the police power to use force offensively on people is uncontrollable and immoral] Video Shows a White Baltimore Cop Attempt to Run Over a Fleeing Black Man and Recklessly Chase Him Until Crashing
/From [HERE] A white Baltimore Police officer was suspended after a viral video posted Tuesday showed him driving his departmental vehicle off-road and nearly striking a man before crashing through a fence in Central Park Heights.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Mayor Brandon Scott called the video, which was uploaded by TikTok user @1grandsxnn_, “deeply concerning.”
The police department did not identify the officer involved. Its Internal Affairs division is reviewing footage from the officer’s body-worn camera as part of an internal affairs investigation, according to the department. Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates also promised a “thorough and comprehensive” investigation by his office. He said city prosecutors will decline to call the involved officer as a witness in “any active or future criminal prosecutions” until that investigation wraps up.
Police spokesperson Lindsey Eldridge said that the officer “will be assigned to administrative duties” pending the outcome of the police department’s internal investigation.
“This is not how we expect our officers to behave, and this incident does not reflect the values or standards of the Baltimore Police Department,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Wednesday in a statement, calling the video “not only disturbing, but alarming.” [MORE]
Clearly there was no reason to use deadly force on the Black man - he posed no imminent threat as he fled and he was wanted for a traffic citation bench warrant. The execution of said warrant was arbitrary - as most bench warrants for traffic misdemeanors are not quashed by arrest.
Petitioning puppeticians for reforms, or begging them to enforce the status quo by punishing police for conduct that is already illegal or begging them to defund or lower police department budgets can have no effect on the extraordinary police power to use force offensively on citizens. Said non-reformable and uncontrollable power to initiate the use of unprovoked violence on people is called “authority.”
As you will see, if you indulge BW here, due to the fact that "authority" is immoral and unjust and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for belief in its existence, the legal system is entirely based on physical coercion or violence. In other words, we are not free.
Political “authority” can be summed up as the implied right to rule over people. It is the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral and legal obligation to obey.’ [MORE] Authority is the basis and operating system for all governments throughout the world, regardless of type, function or characterization. As so-called representatives of authority, police officers (among other authorities) are empowered to use force offensively against citizens who are legally and morally obliged to obey authority.
However, all use of force offensively is immoral and evil. Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by “citizens” are just as unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by government agents. Putting your hands on another human being, not in self-defense but offensively, without their consent and ‘manipulating their body in disregard of their volition is evil’, whether its done by citizens or representatives of “authority” wearing blue costumes. Larken Rose explains, “authority is permission to commit evil – to do things that would be recognized as immoral and unjustified if anyone else did them.” [MORE]
