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本帖最后由 woikuraki 于 2012-3-31 10:12 编辑
【中文标题】黑人为什么不相信警察
【原文标题】Why black people don't trust the police
【登载媒体】CNN
【原文作者】LZ Granderson
【原文链接】http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/22/opinion/granderson-florida-shootings/index.html
雷万•马丁在双湖社区被警察乔治•迈克尔•齐默曼的射杀之处。
我不相信警察，我认识的大多数黑人也不相信警察。
我尊敬他们，我支持他们，我感激他们所做的工作。
但是，当你像我一样无数次被无缘无故地要求停车时；当你像我一样毫无缘由地被戴上手铐时；当你出门去买点药，回来时发现突然被4辆警车围住，刺眼的警灯让你满脑袋想的都是如何不被手枪击中时，你就不会再相信警察了。
雷万•马丁悲剧的第一个不公正事件发生在2月26日，那天晚上，乔治•齐默曼决定追踪并最终枪杀了马丁。第二个不公正事件是，即使有报警电话录音，桑福德警方也未能证明饱受质疑的齐默曼正当防卫行为。但是，既然马丁的父母被迫起诉警方，只是为了听一听报警电话录音，那么似乎齐默曼不是这个案件中唯一应当受到质疑的人。
星期四，桑福德警察局长比尔•李“临时”离职。星期三，桑福德市政委员会给他投出了“不信任”票。
但是，星期二在市政大厅举行的全国有色人种会议中，桑福德的黑人居民说他们早就不对警方报有信心，这个地区长期以来存在着歧视现象。
执法并非易事，而且是相当危险的，但这并不能成为处置不当和谎言的借口。桑福德警方为齐默曼——一个执法志愿者，据以前911电话录音显示有偏执狂症状的人——脱罪所付出的努力，与查明案件真相所付出的努力相比，难免让人感觉这又是一件警方试图掩盖错误的种族事件。开枪的人或许不是正式的警员，但警方处理事情的方式我们再熟悉不过了。
这似乎与1991年的罗德尼•金事件如出一辙。（译者注：1991年3月3日，非裔美国人罗德尼•金因超速被洛杉矶警方追逐，被截停后拒捕袭警，遭到警方用警棍暴力制服。1992年，法院判决逮捕罗德尼•金的四名白人警察无罪，从而引发了1992年洛杉矶暴动。）
这也几乎是纽约阿莫多•迪洛被杀事件的翻版。1991年，他只不过去取自己的钱包，就被便衣警察杀害，身中41枪。
我们还听说过新奥尔良的类似事件。2005年，美国警察在丹齐格大桥上射杀黑人取乐，警局把事件掩盖了整整两年。地方法院在开始时甚至不受理此案，直到司法部开始介入。去年夏天，涉案警官认罪服法。
人们不理解，NWA乐队怎么会创作出“Fuck the Police”这样的歌曲。让我来告诉你，那是因为他们知道还有很多不为人知的雷万•马丁，就连这个案件也差点被掩盖住。上个月俄亥俄州查尔顿高中枪击案发生24小时之内，所有人都听到了报警电话录音。而马丁的父母还需要靠诉讼来听取这份录音。
这是为什么？
如果警方已经竭尽所能，如果真像市政府发布的公告中所称“依据现有的事实禁止实施逮捕”，那么为什么在引起全国媒体关注之后又采取行动呢？
公告说警方还在调查案件的细节，绝不妥协，但当局从未盘问过齐默曼，直到现在也没有。他们对马丁的尸体做了毒品和酒精测试，但没有检验齐默曼。手持武器的是齐默曼，可不是马丁啊。
就和新奥尔良、迪洛、金的受害者一样……
2010年，赤手空拳、即将在第二天结婚的肖恩•贝尔在车内被警察的50发子弹击毙，这一家人后来获得纽约市政府700万美元的赔偿。
他的未婚妻妮可•贝尔在判决之后说：“无论多少钱也不能最终解决这个问题，无论多少钱也不能抚平我的伤痛。我们只能说服自己接受这样的结果，继续生活下去。”
这就是黑人社区居民，当遭到警察不公对待时，无数次相互劝慰的语言。
原文：
A memorial to Trayvon Martin outside The Retreat at Twin Lakes community where he was shot by George Michael Zimmerman。
(CNN) -- I don't trust cops and I don't know many black people who do.
I respect them. I sympathize with them. I am appreciative of the work they do.
But when you've been pulled over for no good reason as many times as I have; when you've been in handcuffs for no good reason as many times as I have; when you run out to buy some allergy medication and upon returning home, find yourself surrounded by four squad cars with flashing lights and all you can think about is how not to get shot, you learn not to trust cops.
The first instance of injustice surrounding the Trayvon Martin tragedy occurred February 26, the night George Zimmerman decided to pursue, confront and ultimately shoot and kill Martin. The second started the moment the Sanford police failed to properly investigate what, given the 911 tapes, is clearly a questionable claim of self-defense made by Zimmerman. But seeing that Martin's parents were forced to sue the police department just to hear the tapes, it seems as if Zimmerman isn't the only questionable component in this case.
Thursday, Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee stepped down "temporarily." On Wednesday, Sanford city commissioners had voted "no confidence" in him.
But at a town hall meeting hosted by the NAACP on Tuesday, Sanford's black residents said they lost confidence in the police long before because of the extensive history of prejudicial treatment in the area.
Law enforcement isn't easy. In fact, it is extremely dangerous. But that in no way excuses improper procedure and lies. And given the amount of effort put forth by the Sanford chief to exonerate Zimmerman, a volunteer neighborhood watchman with a history of 911 calls that suggests paranoia, versus efforts to find out the truth, it sure feels like another case of racial profiling and police trying to cover up an impropriety. The shooter may not have been a police officer, but the story of how the police handled this case is oh-so-familiar.
It's the same story the nation heard from blacks in Los Angeles surrounding the 1991 Rodney King beating.
It's the same story heard from blacks in New York City surrounding the murder of Amadou Diallo, who was only carrying his wallet when he was shot 41 times by four plainclothes policemen in 1999.
That same story was heard in New Orleans, where black men were shot and killed for sport by police officers off the Danziger Bridge in 2005. The police department covered it up for two years before any arrests were made. Charges were even initially dismissed by the district judge before the Justice Department got involved and finally, last summer, officers were convicted.
And people wonder where the impetus behind NWA's "___ the Police" came from. I'll tell you where it came from. It came from knowing there are far more stories like Trayvon Martin's that the world never hears about. In fact, we almost didn't hear about this one. The nation heard the 911 tapes from last month's tragic shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio within 24 hours of the incident. Martin's parents had to file a lawsuit before they could hear the ones in this case.
Why?
If the police department had done everything it was supposed to do, if it was truly "PROHIBITED from making an arrest based on the facts and circumstances they had at the time" as the letter released by the city manager states, then why hold back until there is national media attention?
The letter said the department was still investigating the case and didn't want to compromise it, but the authorities never brought Zimmerman in for questioning. They still haven't. They tested Martin's body for drugs and alcohol, but not Zimmerman's. The only person with a weapon was Zimmerman. Martin was unarmed.
Just like the victims in New Orleans, Diallo, King. ...
In 2010, the family of Sean Bell was awarded $7 million by the city of New York after five police officers sprayed his car with more than 50 bullets, killing him. He was unarmed and to be married the next day.
"No amount of money can provide closure, no amount of money can make up for the pain," his fiancee, Nicole Paultre Bell, said after the ruling. "We'll just try to learn how to live with it and move on."
Those are words members of the black community have to say to each other far too many times when it comes to treatment by the police.
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