Whats Up Philly, Why Can’t the Others Keep Up?

Four Philadelphia police officers will be dismissed, three will be disciplined and a supervising police sergeant will be demoted after the violent police beating of three suspects fleeing a shooting, the city’s mayor and police commissioner said today. A TV news helicopter captured footage of the incident.

If only Inglewood’s, Los Angeles’ and New York’s respective police departments can take notes from the swift disciplinary action from Philadelphia. Police brutality is commonplace, but it should never be condoned. Shooting an unarmed man with 50+ bullets is not deserving of a clean police slate and regional celebrity. Instead, these officers in uniform should have justice served to them, quickly an swiftly. Too many individuals from disenfranchised communities are at the bad end of these officer’s game plan, and all too quickly do these incidents remind us of the racial injustice that is ramped throughout the U.S.

Police Departments across the country-Please take notes. All others, be on watch and guard. Inglewood’s incident was just a mear dot in the legacy of ill-will and police misconduct in Southern California.