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Atlanta: New Policing Standard

1. When you are called to a fast-food restaurant (Wendy's, MacDonalnds) as a police-servant, do NOT try to TASER a drunk - but otherwise innocent-black man.

2. If the drunk but otherwise innocent-black man is BIG, do not plan or premediate how to kill him.

3. If  the drunk but otherwise innocent-black man takes your TASER from you, do not cry for help, and then shoot the drunk but otherwise innocent-black man
in the back.

4. Fess up: "Sir, I lost my TASER to a drunk but otherwise innocent-black man, but I chose NOT to kill him to get it back to save my dignity" (READ: My sorry off-white butt).

shalom, shalOM SHALom

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Funom Makama Date: 6/25/2020 1:47:00 PM Hmm.. Interesting. A lot of restructuring needs to be done in the security system. I am not an American and I do not live in America, but the sooooooo much noise from George's death has increased our awareness and knowledge a little on these issues. There is always a middle point, there is always a way.. I hope this cup will pass away for America to be great again as it used to be. Great poem. Login to Reply

Thomas Wells Date: 6/16/2020 9:41:00 PM Hello Anil, Your poem nails it! That is exactly why he was killed. Thank you friend. Have a great evening. Login to Reply Anil Deo Date: 6/17/2020 12:50:00 AM You are the Lincolns e are waiting for: apologists for supremacy do NOT k now they harbor this bias against BIG BLACK MEN (except in bed, LOL!). We dont kill everyone we are afraid of. And I will NOT coddle folks in all sorts of denial. Solutions come with admitting these men WERE & ARE INNOCENT. I know ... as U do ... I was almost one of these statistics. But for Jesus! And some Indian nonviolence in me. shalom2x.We do NOT need Lincoln to come back to teach us policing