By Leigh Bravo ——Bio and Archives--October 27, 2015
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"And the answer is, I don't know. I don't know whether this explains it entirely, but I do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind blowing through American law enforcement over the last year. And that wind is surely changing behavior." "We can't lose sight of the fact that there really are bad people standing on the street with guns. The young men dying on street corners all across this country are not committing suicide or being shot by the cops. They are being killed, police chiefs tell me, by other young men with guns."In New York, a protest was under way and attended by Quentin Tarantino, a Hollywood director, who has made a living off of representing horrific violence and murder in his films. Tarantino stood before the crowd and said,
"I'm a human being with a conscience," and if you believe there's murder going on, then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered. When I see murders, I do not stand by ...I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers."Tarantino stood before the crowd and defended the actions of Michael Brown, claiming he was unfairly attacked and killed by police officer, Darin Wilson.
"Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black teenager, was walking to his grandmother's house and was stopped and harassed by Darin Wilson a Ferguson cop. After being shot once Michael tried to run away. He was shot a total of 6 times including twice in the head."
"The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls 'murderers' aren't living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies --they're risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem. New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous 'Cop Fiction'. It's time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino's films."What are the facts about police shootings? There are 630,000 active law enforcement officers and in 2014 there were 560 people killed by officers. Of those killed, 268 were whites, 142 were blacks and 90 were Hispanics. Yet, even with these statistics, the Obama administration continues to further the "Black Lives Matters" movement. President Obama insisted, in July, that the mass incarceration of drug dealers disproportionately affects minorities. He believes that government is targeting blacks in drug investigations. As a result, he has been pushing more lenient sentences and the release of drug offenders he feels are non violent. As a result of this new policy, Tyrone Howard, a drug dealer, who had 28 arrests on his rap sheet, was released and placed into rehabilitation instead of prison and subsequently shot and killed a police officer, Randolph Holder. In response to Obama's new policies on incarcerating drug dealers, FBI Director Comey said,
"Each drug dealer, each mugger, each killer, and each felon with a gun had his own lawyer, his own case, his own time before judge and jury, his own sentencing, and, in many cases, an appeal or other post-sentencing review. There were thousands and thousands of those individual cases, but to speak of 'mass incarceration' I believe is confusing, and it distorts an important reality."The facts are that fewer than 1 % of drug convicts have been convicted of simple drug possession. Racially, 48% of all drug offenders in federal prisons are Latinos, 27% are black and 22% are white. According to the Bureau of Justice Stastics a study revealed that 68% of the prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were re-arrested for new crimes within 3 years of being released, and 77% were arrested within 5 years.
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Leigh Bravo works in the Hospitality and Marketing Industry. Leigh considers herself a concerned citizen interested in reaching those people who may not be aware of the entire truth. Leigh is happily married and a mother of three looking towards a better future for her kids. Leigh also writes for thetrumpet.me