No, you were supposed to GET OUT OF HIS CAB.

I am a cop and to some and perhaps you a “pig”. Police Officer’s are merly a refelction of society, and sadly perhaps you encountered some officer’s who did not act with you in a professional manner.

I don’t care if people call me ” pig” and to be honest that is mild, It is when I’m called a racist white mother fucker” that I pause and wonder why a person could be so hateful in such a short time. So just as you feel abused, Well , let’s say the feeling may be similar on the other side of the coin. Only I don’t hate the peron I always pitful, at their ignorance.

When I stop a person it’s alway’s for a valid reason, and I take the time out to explain why. Sometimes folks perhaps like you feel i am fabricating a matter. However, and sadly in the urban area that I work in many minority juveniles are identified by victims as their assailants. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to fully expain my justification for a stop as an overt effort to inform, educated and explain my actions and do so with the intent to communicate understanding for my police actions.

I have never read a reporter who was honest enough to state that he knew cops, and put a human face on us, and to your credit that is balanced reporting.
One of my associates is from Africa, he went home to Africa and was robbed and shot, came back here with a horrible infections. I feel bad for your brother he seems like a very good man in a tough spot, I know their is alot of corruption in some police organization that undermines our credability.

Our system has flaws, but the demonstrators violent destructive behavior against innocent store merchants serves no purpose. That anarchists, and the like joined , was only to exploit a horrific, tradgedy for their own personal agenda.

The Officer that killed this young man will be brought to court, and a jury will decide if his actions were criminal. Sadly, nothing can help bring Oscar back, and as such we failed in our mission.

Obviously, I’m guilty in your court, even though you do not have the facts of the case. Thank goodness judges don’t think the way you do, or I would have served jail time for the three false charges against me. This case was so easy that I didn’t even need a lawyer to prove that I was innocent.

And if I didn’t have a witness with me I would have been just another angry black man. What was I supposed to do when the cab driver called 911? Flee? This guy made things up to get me arrested — who knows what he could have told the police when they arrived?

What happened in the taxi is really immaterial in the point I tried to make in this article. Did you miss to read where I said that the cop arrested me for asking for his badge number and telling him that I was going to file a complaint?

Let me see if I understand this: You were in a taxi, got into an argument with the driver, and instead of getting out and filing a complaint the next day, stayed in the cab until *after* a cop showed up. Is that right? Please note, it does not matter if you were in the right – perhaps the driver called you names, overcharged you, or refused to take you to your destination – but when you refused to act peacably and more importantly RATIONALLY, you should have expected the police response you got. You were an angry customer refusing to let a small businessman earn a living – and you were WRONG.