A Thought For The Weekend

Okay, it's only Wednesday, but I'm off to an early weekend and this thought hovered in my mind since late last night:

We all have been reading the OJ buzz. There was another report on TV which doesn't seem to be leaving me. You all heard about this older lady who got 'roughed up' by a cop as she was resisting arrest here in Utah.

The whole dispute was over her not watering her lawn, she'd been warned several times and finally they came to take her in.
Now, whether or not this is a city ordinance, a fire hazard, the officer being in the right or wrong, is not mine to judge. I don't know the whole story, and neither do you, but what I do know is that the press always seem to make the cop look like the bad guy when something like this happens.

Apparently the elderly woman has a cut on her nose from where she fell on the side walk. I am truly sorry for her pain but after all; she DID resist as an officer of the law had seemingly any reason to arrest her.

I watched a press conference last night, where an attorney ( I don't know her name) who was involved in 'high profile cases' held a speech holding up some iron shackles found back in the midevil times. She claimed that we don't need our elderly citizens arrested in 'one of these'. She forgot to mention, however, that we don't need to have our elderly citizen (or anyone) braking the law, either.
I'm going to leave the rest in the open with one more thing in mind: I strongly believe that there are more 'good cops' out there, than 'bad cops'. I take my chances and give the police in question the benefit of the doubt.

In the society we live today, I can only salute men and women who pursue the difficult and unthankful job of being an officer of the law.

Rebecca~

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