A Mother's Message to the Police of America

A Mother's Message to the Police of America
Those of us who came of age in the 60s will recall that many of the riots and rebellions were the result of a mother rescuing her son from the hands of the police.
Before we knew it, all hell had broken loose, cities burned to the ground. In a recent conversation with Oakland Tribune Editor Martin Reynolds, he urged me to inform him of incidents of police abuse. Well, Martin, a mother approached me today in Berkeley to inform me the Berkeley police were harassing her son under the color of law, even though he has no police record. She was awakened by neighbors one night who told her the police were engaging her son outside. She got out of bed, dressed and went outside.

Even though he had a Cannabis card for the legal possession of marijuana, he was arrested and taken to jail. She had to pay $3,000.00 for bail and $5,000.00 for a lawyer.

Her son is now suffering trauma and apparently is harassed almost daily when he comes home from work. He begs his mother to move from the home she owns and where her family has lived for over a half century. The mother refuses to move, after all she owns the home and only must pay taxes,plus she is retired and a widow on a fixed income. She has no desire to have a house payment, for she cannot afford it.

The little money she had saved was lost when the stock market fell due to the Wall Street pyramid scheme. So she must now deal with a son in terror of coming home from work each night. She has not been able to convince him to rid himself of his fear. Her only fear is that he will be stopped alone by the police and her son will fail the tone test (depending on ones tone of voice, when stopped by the police, one of three things can happen: one can be killed, arrested or released). Her son has not taken quietly to harassment under the color of law.

But she says if anything happens to her son she will react in a manner of those mothers during the 60s. Unlike her son, she is fearless and will respond in the manner of a warrior woman. She will not go out without taking somebody with her, she swears on the blood of Jesus!

The mother wants to know where can she and other elderly persons go for help when confronted with problems such as police harassment of their children?

We think the police of America should be aware of this mother's cry and get prepared to make radical changes in their behavior, for they may soon face the wrath of a people who say enough is enough, just as the people in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain are doing at this hour. The oppressive police in those land shall soon be accountable in the court of people's justice for their abuse under the color of law.

We know the police are nothing but an occupying army in our community. They are another gang of thugs who practice wickedness under the color of law. The days of wickedness are soon to end once they people overcome fear as they did during the
60s, especially here in the Bay Area with the Black Panther Party and as they are doing throughout the Middle East and North Africa at this hour.

The Black Panthers said one is either part of problem or part of the solution. It is past time for the police of America to cease their reign of terror, harassing black and other minority men. We have seen them in action from Oakland to New York, stopping black men at will and asking for ID, are you probation or parole, then releasing them, sometimes taking their money, jewelry and any drugs. Often the men are severely beaten before they are released, not to mention the brothers and sisters who are victims of homicide under the color of law, killed in cold blood like Oakland's Oscar Grant and so many others coast to coast.

It may not be long before the courts of the people will hold accountable all those officers who have blood on their hands. There is no hiding place!
--Marvin X,
4/23/11