By now, everyone has seen the video of the mother putting the goon hands on her son, during the Baltimore Uprising. In a surprise move, the Baltimore Police Commissioner responded. What follows is a snippet of his response, and my open letter to him.
“If you saw on one scene, you had one mother who grabbed her child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed,” Watts said. “I wish I had more parents that took charge of their kids out there tonight.”
Do you know what I wish, Mr. Baltimore Police Commissioner? I wish that there was no such thing as The Blue Wall of Silence that protects bad cops from being exposed by their brothers and sisters in blue. I wish that you were demanding that the cops who took part in Freddie Gray's death be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I wish that you didn't oversee a police force that cost Baltimore taxpayers over $5 million in police misconduct settlements over the last four years or so. I wish that you reacted as swiftly and publicly to a man getting HIS SPINE BROKEN WHILE IN POLICE CUSTODY as you did to this mother. And I wish for a unicorn that knows kung fu, since I'm wishing on the impossible.