Shocking moments when 77-year-old woman was ripped out of her car for speeding

You know it’s funny… When poor and/or minorities try to exclaim that this sort of thing (worse!) happens to them as a matter of routine, no one listens. But when it happens to someone outside of those groups, it becomes front page news and a rallying cry. @fbba3c729db50292ddba178bda61b9ec:disqus says “the cops in this country are out of control.” Too late, bro. They’ve BEEN vigilantes since inception. It only matters what side of the “law” you’re on, but even that is nebulous. Now it is becoming more transparent: we are ALL on the wrong side of the law. They’ll snatch off your tot’s Pull-Up and your grandmother’s Depends without one concern for how dark/light you are, how wealthy/poor you are, how famous/obscure you are, or how thin/obese/beautiful/ugly you (think you) are.

I notice no one is talking about how she resisted both the officer’s requests as well as arrest. People are quick to point out any behavior other than docility and full compliance in cases involving minorities, like the one in LA several weeks ago where an officer stomped on a black mother’s genitals after threatening to do so. The blow killed her–all caught on camera (!). Of course, people say, “Well, she didn’t immediately comply with officers when they tried to arrest her.” Mind you, the arrest occurred at her own home for a child endangerment charge after she dropped her two children off at the local police station and said she needed help and couldn’t raise her children any longer. The fact that she was desperate and distraught to begin with wasn’t anyone’s concern. She was an animal, to be disposed of worse than one, in the officers’ opinions.

I hope that people have great epiphanies as their own lives are rattled, and they internalize the notion that “[i]njustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) Ideally, we can stop unleashing our frustrations on each other and amass ourselves against the real threat.