#Blacklivesmatter #ToledoPolice OPEN LETTER TO THE TOLEDO POLICE DEPARTMENT: Please accept this letter as an inquiry, not as a combative missive. I just have one question that I want answered. Why do the police hate us? The us I refer to is the black community in Toledo and our children. I mean after all, what have we done to the police community other than provide a good living to you, your families and your children. Your income is one of the highest, you have sick time, vacation time, you are able to send your children to the best schools, you retire with a fantastic pension and you can live in communities like Maumee, Perrysburg, Rossford and Sylvania. Yet, when you leave for work your wives are terrified. Imagine how we parents of black children feel when our children leave our homes to go to the store, go to school or go to the movies. To your wives: We are terrified. We are forced to live in high crime, blighted areas, patrolled by men and women who hate us. We work, we take care of our families are forced to send our children to substandard schools but provide your children access to quality educations while living in bright, shiny communities. Why do you hate us and our children? Why are your wives terrified because you come into our communities? So you say police men are killed by people like us and at the end of the day you just want to go home. We want our children to come home also unencumbered by the hatred exhibited by the toledo police. Well, you have come into our homes and killed us and destroyed our property, terrified our children and our grandchildren and we are afraid of you, so why do you hate us. When we see you, you dont speak, you drive down the street, you dont smile, you come to our meetings and you act like we are invisible, we come to your workplace (Safety Building) and you dont smile, speak or even give us a nod of you head. Cold and unfeeling...Everyone knows that to promote harmony with others you first have to say hello and have a mutual respect for each other, after all our city taxes pay your salaries. We trusted the police enough to vote one of your own into the highest office of the city. You didnt vote the former policeman in, because the majority of you dont live in the city that you terrify. Why do you hate the black community and our children? Why do you take us into alleys, threaten, beat and humiliate us.....at the end of the day we just want to go home to our families. Do you know how terrifying it is for you to be behind us when we are driving? No black person wants to be driving in front of the police in Toledo, Ohio not even we who dont have warrants, are insured and properly licensed, Why should we feel that way, when all we are doing is going to the store for a loaf of bread AND we pay your salary? Ok, I will give you this. Two policemen have been killed by two citizens of Toledo in the last 50 years. That is tragic but one of the murderers was a young white boy....yet young black boys are your prey, our children. children that we love, children that we want to aspire to be the best that they can be. Sure some of our children arent perfect. Neither are your children but you hate our children. We dont hate yours, we, the over policed and the underserved. We, who think twice before even considering calling the police. Why? Because we dont know how that call will turn out, what could be the result. We could wind up arrested, beaten or dead because we said the wrong thing, looked the wrong way, didnt move fast enough. Consequently, sometimes we just dont call. I am particularly offended by the statement of Brandon Otano-Groves, For every cop that shoots an unarmed african american Theres 20 black guys that shoot an unarmed african american. So we really need to find I guess the moral line here not just its another white guy shooting another black kid its deeper than that. This statement assumes that all african americans are violently inclined to shoot another african-american. This negates the fact that white people are just as, if not more violent to other white americans than our community could ever be. Yet, you dont hate these violent criminals.....nor do you express extreme contempt for their actions......and you hate our children. Fact: Mother kills Baby Elaina and hides her body in a garage for months while police look for the baby, Jobe kills policeman Keith Dressel, Grandmother and uncle kill three young children to keep them from returning to their biological mother, young man stabs his mother at the breakfast table almost beheading her, mother slams baby to the ground, mother kills baby, mother hangs 11 year old son, man hunts down girlfriend and kills her in a strip mall on Byrne Rd., and the coup de gras, University of Toledo Policeman kidnaps, rapes and kills young female student and leaves her body in a field. Why do you hate us? ~ Twila Page 1/3/2015
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:23:43 +0000
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