PACEs Connection Reacts: The Derek Chauvin Trial Verdict & Police Brutality in the United States April 30th, 2021 12pm PT

I believe there are those who genuinely pursue and attain their position of authority with the sole purpose of assisting their fellow human beings; however, I further believe that many law-enforcement employees — be they private-property security, community police, prison guards or heavily-armed rapid-response police units — also target such fields of employment for authority/power reasons, albeit perhaps subconsciously.

It's a profession in which they might storm into suspects’ homes, screaming, with fully-automatic machineguns or handguns drawn, at the homes’ occupants (to “face down!”), all of whom, including infants, can be permanently traumatized from the experience. On some occasions, these ‘law-enforcers’ force their way into the wrong home, altogether. That’s potentially when open-fire can and does occur, followed by wrongful deaths to be “impartially” investigated.

Those that do get into such a profession of (potential or actual) physical authority might do some honest soul-searching as to truly why. Meanwhile, some people who may now be in such an armed authority capacity were reared with an irrational distrust or blindly baseless dislike of other racial (etcetera) groups.

It sometimes seems to me that a large number of human beings, however precious their lives, can be considered disposable to a nation. And when the young children of those people take notice of this, they're vulnerable to begin perceiving themselves as worthless. It’s atrociously unjust and desperately needs to stop!

Although their devaluation as human beings is basically based on their race, it still reminds me of the devaluation, albeit perhaps subconsciously, of the daily civilian lives lost (a.k.a. “casualties”) in protractedly devastating civil war zones and sieges. At some point, they can end up receiving just a few column inches in the First World’s daily news.