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Reason First: Michigan Police Chief Blames ‘Too Many Minorities’ For Cop Pepper-Spraying Black Men Wrongly Accused Of Fighting

Two Black men were pepper-sprayed by police and falsely accused of fighting. The police chief blamed it on "too many minorities" coming into town.

By Skyler SaundersPublished 3 months ago 3 min read

“The man and woman in blue are friends to you,” as the saying goes. That is unless you are a minority in East Lansing. Michigan. In a scene where two black men in their early twenties, Lonnie Smith and Mason Wood had been racially profiled.

In an event where one was trying to break up an altercation with the other, police pepper-sprayed them both. To make matters worse, the chief of police, Jennifer Brown, mentioned in a statement that there were two many “minorities” around.

She made this known following an event that actually started earlier known as Welcome weekend and Fall Weeekend where various people flock to this part of Michigan.

This blatant and vicious display of racism is what keeps false organizations like Black Lives Matter in a state of almost legitimacy.

The two men had been engaged in this altercation in the summer and seek justice now. They’re arguing their individual rights had been violated for trying to stop a fight, at least Smith had tried to end the melee.

With lawsuits flying from both men against the ELPD, they want to receive a payday, yes, but they also want to clear their names as they have committed no crime.

Data shows the number of east Lansing individuals who identify as black is twelve percent. The racial disparity only contributes to the fact the police chief stepped out of bounds with her words.

Woods and Mason remain two examples of what could have been much worse. These two Negroes should be glad they didn’t get gunned down like rabid dogs in the street. Instead, they chose the gentleman’s route and sought the court system to settle this dispute rationally.

The power over the men and women should be used to defend their selfish liberties. It is the role of the government with the agency of the police to protect and uphold the rights of lawful citizens.

If the cops present themselves as rights-violators, they relinquish their authority. For these men to be pepper sprayed is a direct breach of the code of good police work. In the way they never asked questions and used physical force, these law enforcement officials severed the ties between citizens and police officers.

In a world where so many instances have arisen throughout the country, this Michigan incident is a clarion call for the sovereign individual to be uplifted.

Police officers must do a better job at their job. They should study to present themselves as ladies and gentlemen who have a monopoly on force. With that token expressed, it is the role of police officers to not act as murder, death, kill (MDK) and freedom restrictors of people doing legal acts.

When we consider the conception of rights, it is important to remember the reality of police history in America. The profiling and outright racist measures, as shown by the decades, remains a hot button issue in all of this.

To be completely first-handed, it is apparent that the individual reigns over all. Only when that individual crosses the line of legality should that person be a defier of the law.

By taking into account the reality of cops who fail to uphold the law, they ought to be dismissed or even imprisoned based on the severity of their misdeeds.

All of the bias and ugliness is due to irrationalism which permeates the government. If the military, law courts, and police remain corrupt in certain sectors of the State, there will be a difficult way of living in the United States. This country is the most honorable expression ever made politically in human history. That is partly due to the work of the police. Let them figure out how to best protect individual rights.

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