by Kikapu » Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:20 am
It turns out Brooks was on parole which explains his cooperation with the police and his ill advised resisting arrest and trying to run away. No doubt the cops checking his background were aware, that Brooks having any interaction with the police regardless weather he is guilty or not would violate his parole condition and would end up in jail again for a long time. His life depended on the goodwill of these two cops to give him a break, but instead, they would rather ruin the man’s life for being over the limit by 0.2, from legal alcohol level at 0.8 to his level at 1.0.
So what are we talking here to get to 1.0 from 0.8, a half a glass of wine or another half pint of beer? Not exactly a heavy drinker. How many of us been behind the wheel close to that limit , give a take couple of decimal points. Brooks thought mistakenly that these two cops would show some compassion and cut him a little break on getting his life together rather than arrest him to send him back to jail. How many times cops give breaks to their fellow officers getting stop for various violations including drunk driving as a professional curtesy, but not for this black guy who has a prison record, then people wonder why there are so many broken homes in the poor black communities and prisons full of people.
Brooks for that instant moment of seeing himself going back to jail as he is about to be handcuffed panicked and made a run for it after wrestling with the two cops. In the end it would have resulted the same ending for him, be killed now or long jail sentence, so having nothing to lose, he chose to make a run for it. Had he got away, he would have been caught soon after, maybe even turn himself in to the police, but his penalty would have been so severe, he would have been prisoned for a very long time. But the cop who murdered him most probably did Brooks a favour from saving him from going to prison and put the spot light on bad cops who murder suspects because they think they still can, even soon after all the turmoil caused by the murder of Floyd.
This is the arrogance which has made bad cops become worse cunts than ordinary cunts. So instead of Brooks serving long prison sentence, let’s hope it will be his murderer who will end up serving long prison sentence instead and help shape up the police departments across the country. At least that is the hope. We have a saying in Turkish which I will paraphrase, that “you can put a pigs tail in a vise grip to make it straight for 40 years then release it, it would still be curled”. Bad habits are hard to let go!