Every single Australian person who is outraged at the police (and entire societal) brutality against black people in the US that’s currently in the headlines needs to put the same amount of energy into learning about the VERY SAME brutality that’s used here in Australia to oppress Indigenous Australians.
Every single Australian, whether in Australia or overseas, born in Australia or born overseas, needs to put the onus on themselves to EDUCATE, INFORM and TALK ABOUT the institutional violence black Australians face.
White Australia has:
Warning. These links may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased.
Refused Indigenous people treatment from the Royal Flying Doctor Service in preference of less in need white people (‘Ray Martin: The Great Divide’, SBS)
minimised and attempted to erase the historical importance of Aboriginal Australians, including that Indigenous Australians may be the earliest humans on the planet
Be outraged at Ferguson. Be outraged about Tamir Rice. Be outraged at ALL the black deaths due to police brutality and institutionalised racism in the USA.
But ALSO be OUTRAGED at the same treatment shown to Indigenous Australians here in this country.
SB:
I’m waitin’ on you. This is your job. I’m waitin’ on you…
Cop:
You seem very irritated.
SB:
I am. I really am because I feel like what I’m getting a ticket for, I was
getting out of your way. You were speeding up, tailing me, so I move over, and
you stop me. So, yeah, I am a little irritated, but that doesn’t stop you from
giving me a ticket.
Cop:
Are you done?
SB:
You asked me what was wrong and I told you. So now I’m done, yeah.
Cop:
Ok. You mind putting out your cigarette, please?
SB:
I’m in my car. Why do I have to put out my cigarette?
Cop:
Well you can step on out now.
SB:
I don’t have to step out of my car.
Cop:
Step out of the car. [Cop opens the car door] Step out.
SB:
No, you don’t have the right-
Cop:
Step out of the car!
SB:
You do not have the right to do that.
Cop:
I do have the right. Now, step out or I will remove you.
SB:
I refuse to talk to you other than to identify myself-
Cop:
Step out or I will remove you.
SB:
I am getting removed for a failure to-
Cop:
Step out or I will remove you. I’m giving you a lawful order. Get out of the
car now or I’m gonna remove you.
SB:
I’m calling my-
Cop:[Cop
reaches into the car] I’m gonna yank you out of here.
SB:
Okay, you gonna yank me out of my car?
Cop:
Get out.
SB:
Ok. Alright. Let’s do this. Don’t touch me.
Cop:
Get out of the car!
SB:
Don’t touch me! I’m not under arrest. You don’t have the right to-
Cop:
You ARE under arrest.
SB:
I’m under arrest for what? For what? For what?
Cop:
Get out of the car. Get out of the car! Now!
SB:
Why am I being apprehended? Because you’re trying to give me a ticket for a
failure-
Cop:
I said get out of the car.
SB:
Why am I being apprehended? You opened
my car door-
Cop:
I am gonna drag you outta here.
SB:
So you’re threatening to drag me out of my own car?
Cop:
Get out of the car!!
SB:
And then you-
Cop:
[Cop points his taser at her.] I will light you up!!
SB:
Wow.
Cop:
NOW!!
SB:
Wow. [Sandra steps out of the car.]
Cop:
Get out of the car!
SB:
For a failure to signal, you’re doing all this. You’re doing all this for a
failure to signal.
Cop:
Get over there. [Cop points her over to the sidewalk, while pointing his taser
at her.]
SB:
Right. Yeah. Let’s take this to court. [Sandra continues to walk toward the
sidewalk.] Let’s do this for a failure to signal. Yep, for a failure to signal.
[Sandra is led out of the view of the dashcam video.]
Cop:
Get off the phone.
SB:
I’m not on the phone. I have a right to record-
Cop:
Put your phone down.
SB:
This is my property.
Cop:
Put your phone down.
SB:
Sir?
Cop:
Put your phone down. Right now! Put your phone down.
SB:
[Sandra puts her phone down on the trunk of her car.] For a fucking failure to
signal, my goodness.
Cop:
Come over here!
SB:
Y’all are interesting. You feelin’ good about this whole thing?
Cop:
Stand right here.
SB:
You feelin’ good about yourself? For my failure to signal, you feel real good
about yourself, don’t you?
Cop:
Turn around.
SB:
You feel good about yourself, don’t you?
Cop:
Turn around. Turn around now. Put your hands-
SB:
Why am I being arrested?
Cop:
I’m giving you a lawful order. I will tell you-
SB:
Why am I being arrested? Why can’t you tell me that part?
Cop:
I’m giving you a lawful order. Turn around.
SB:
Why will you not tell me what’s going on?
Cop:
You are not compliant.
SB:
I’m not compliant ‘cause you just pulled me outta my car.
Cop:
Turn around!!
SB:
Are you fucking kidding me? This is some bullshit.
Cop:
Put your hands behind your back.
SB:
Cause you know this is straight bullshit, and you full a shit. Full a straight
shit. That’s why y’all are some scary fucking cops. South Carolina got all y’all
bitch asses scared. That’s all it is. Fucking scared of a female.
Cop:
If you would have just listened-
SB:
I was tryin’ sign the fucking ticket. Whatever.
Cop:
Stop movin’!
SB:
Are you fucking serious?
Cop:
Stop movin’.
SB:
Oh, I can’t wait till we go to court. OH,
I can’t wait! I cannot WAIT ‘till we go to court! I can’t wait. OH, I can’t
wait. You want me to sit down now?
Cop:
No.
SB:
Oh, you gonna throw me to the floor? That’ll make you feel better about
yourself?
Cop:
Knock it off.
SB:
Ah, that’ll make you feel better about yourself? That make you feel real good,
won’t it? Fucking ass. Fucking pussy. For a failure to signal, you doin’ all of
this. In little ass Prairie View, Texas. My god. They must-
Cop:
You were getting a warning, and now you’re going to jail.
SB:
For what??
Cop:
You can come read right- [Cop leads Sandra back over to the trunk of the car.]
SB:
I’m getting a warning for what?
Cop:
Stay right here.
SB:
You just pointed me over there!
Cop:
I said stay right here.
SB:
Get your fucking mind right. OH, I swear on my life, y’all some pussies. A
pussy ass cop pulls for a fucking signal, you’re takin’ me to jail. What a
pussy. What a pussy. What a- you about to break my fucking wrist.
Cop:
Stop movin’!
SB:
I’m standin’ still! You keep movin’ me, goddamn it!
Cop:
Stay right there.
SB:
Don’t touch me. Fucking pussy, for a traffic ticket.
Cop:
[Goes around the car and closes the front door. Walks back off screen to where
Sandra is on the sidewalk.] Come read right over here. [He stands by the trunk
of the car and shows her the written warning.] This right here says a warning.
YOU started creating a problem. [Cop walks out of shot, toward Sandra.]
SB:
You asked me what was wrong!
Cop:
Do you have anything in your purse that’s illegal?
SB:
Do I look like I have anything on me? This a fuckin’ maxi dress!
Cop:
I’m removing your glasses.
SB:
This a maxi dress.
Cop:
Come on over here.
SB:
Fucking assholes. For a- you about to break my wrist! Can you STOP!? You are
mother fuckin’ about to break my wrist! [Sandra makes sounds of pain.] STOOOPP!
Cop:
[Sounds of struggle.] Stop! Now! Stop it!
Cop
2: Stop resisting, ma’am.
Cop:
If you would stop then I would tell you!
SB:
[In pain.] For a fucking traffic ticket.
Cop:
Now stop!
SB:
[In pain.] You are such a pussy. You are such a pussy.
Cop
2: No, you are.
Cop:
You were yankin’ around.
SB:
[In pain.] For a traffic signal.
Cop:
You were yankin’ around. When you pull away from me, you’re resisting arrest.
SB:
This make you feel real good. This make you feel real good, don’t it? A female
for a traffic signal. For a traffic
signal. I know that makes you feel good, officer.
Cop
2: I got her. I got her.
SB:
I know it make you feel real good. You a real man now. You slam me, knock my
head into the ground, I got epilepsy, you mother fucker.
Cop:
Good. Good.
SB:
I hope I-
Cop
2: You should have thought of that before you start resisting!
SB:
Yeah, this is real good. Real good for a female. Yeah. Y’all strong, ooh. Y’all
real strong.
Cop:
I want you to wait right here. Wait right here.
SB:
I can’t go nowhere with your fucking knee on my back. Duh.
Cop:
[To Cop 2] I’m gonna open your door. [To man recording the brutality.] You need
to leave. You need to leave. You need to leave.
SB:
[inaudible] For a fucking traffic ticket.
Cop:
For a warning. For a warning. You’re going to jail for resisting arrest. Stand
up.
SB:
If I could!
Cop:
Roll over.
SB:
I can’t even fuckin’ feel my arm!
Cop:
Tuck your knee in.
SB:
I can’t-
Cop:
Listen, listen, you’re gonna sit up on your butt.
SB:
You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?
Cop
2: He’s telling you to getup.
SB:
I can’t even hear!
Cop
2: Yes you can.
Cop:
Sit on your butt.
SB:
You slammed my head into the ground.
Cop:
Sit up on your butt.
SB:
He threw my fucking head to the ground. What the hell?
Cop:
Now stand up.
SB:
All this for a traffic signal. I swear to god. All of this for a traffic
signal. [To witness.] Thank you for recording! Thank you! For a traffic signal.
Slammed me into the ground and everything.
Everything. I hope y’all feel good.
Remember when we kept telling y’all, white tumblr, that “know your rights” and all those videos of y’all talking to cops however you please was only for y’all? That it was white privilege? Yeah.
I just read that whole thing without even breathing
This was planned. This was planned from the jump, I have no illusions
Michael Wood gave a no-holds barred look at his career in a previous radio interview, but his tweets gained traction for their brazen admissions that officers lied to get overtime, illegally searched “thousands of people” and committed gross acts during raids, like urinating and defecating on suspects’ beds.
A spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department confirmed that Wood left the force in 2014. In subsequent tweets, Wood promised to reveal more and expressed surprise at the attention paid to his commentary.
After Freddie Gray died in April from a spinal cord injury he sustained while in police custody, thousands in Baltimore protested against police brutality. Wood told theSecular News Network in May that the “BPD started the riots.”
In that interview, Wood, who is white, said that Gray’s death clearly showed that officers treat black and white people differently.
“The officers don’t see it as being so egregious, because people like Freddie Gray are so ingrained as ‘thems,’“ he said. Officers said they arrested Gray for carrying a switchblade, but the city’s chief prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, ruled it was a legal knife.
“Even if the police feel as though they did nothing wrong. How many residents were arrested in the white neighborhoods with spring-assisted pocket knives?” Wood said to SNN. “I have a suspicion that the number is right around zero.”
Wood did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The police spokesman did not respond to questions about Wood’s allegations.
They gon kill him. They are going to straight up kill him
