So, with these recent police brutality threads, and the hysteria and anger and exaggerated statement by some, I wonder.
If you're walking along one day, peacefully minding your business, and then a policeman calls you over and it looks like he's just gonna ask you a few questions or shit. Then he tells you to get down on your knees, he seems suddenly agitated, and you obediently do get down on your knees, because good citizens comply, rite? Right. Suddenly, as you kneel, the police officer kicks you in the face and you reel, and now you're down he starts kicking you and hitting you and maybe clubbing or tasering you, brutalizing your testicles and your ovaries and all manner of shit, and spitting at you and cursing and screaming. Something like that.
Your face is all fucked up, your nose is broken, you've spat out your front teeth and the blood from your nasal cavity is dripping to the back of your mouth, one of your eyes has swollen shut. Your ribs hurt like fuck, breathing hurts. If you touch your groin, you can't feel your testicles anymore because his stomping has scrambled it into mashed potatoes. Or, likewise, your ovaries. One of your ears is ringing, deafened. You're all bruised up, cut up and fucked up. Maybe the police officer ripped your clothes off, partially or completely, in the process of beating you. Your forehead is wounded, your face is bleeding profusely. You believe that you are going to die.
But then he stops and walks back a few feet. You try to get up. You look at him, and you see that he's drawing his gun. He will kill you. But he turns around first, to see if there are any witnesses.
In this brief moment, you have the choice to defend yourself - there is a rock, or a piece of broken glass, a broken bottle, or a metal pipe, on the ground. The cop is still scoping for witnesses, making sure nobody's seen or heard the commotion.
It's a dead end. You can't run away, because there's a wall. If you run PAST the police officer, he still has his gun and he will shoot you before you can escape (and report his brutality to you).
The only way out is to smash his skull in, or cut his throat with the bottle, or ram the pipe up his... you get the picture.
Would you do it to survive?
Or, in other words, if an authority figure suddenly starts doing violence towards you, would you defend yourself?
(Additional goodies. Since you don't know the guy, haven't seen his badge properly or his ID or rank and serial number, there's a chance that he might NOT be a police officer - that he might just be some murdering psycho pretending to be a cop!)
Well?
[I understand this may be a bit graphic. If this is too much, then please tell me and I'll remove this. I think this is pretty disturbing stuff, personally, and I wonder if I may be wrong to post this post.]
"
- PeZook
