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A Georgia woman claimed in a lawsuit that police officers in Albany beat her so badly that she had a miscarriage.
In a complaint filed in federal court, Kenya Harris explained that she went to the Albany Police Department in May 2011 to pick up her minor son after he was arrested, according to Courthouse News.
Harris said she waited five hours for her son before informing Officers Ryan Jenkins that she needed to return home to take care of her other children.
“Defendant Officer Jenkins stated that he did not appreciate the tone in which she was communicating with him, and further stated that if she continued he would take her head and ‘put it to the floor,’” the lawsuit stated.
The mother once again insisted that she needed to leave, and that’s when Jenkins decided to use force.
“Defendant Officer Jenkins, without provocation, grabbed plaintiff, who weighs less than one hundred twenty (120) pounds, by her neck and slammed her to the ground,” the lawsuit said. “Plaintiff momentarily blacked out and came to with […]
What is happening in our beloved America when those who are supposed to protect us, afflict us instead? I grieve. May God help us!
It seems that when Russia lost the cold war, the full malignant energy of power as domination came to the surface of this country, and those people most open to its infection have slipped downhill ever since. That centers on Dixie because it’s dominant culture has never come to terms with the vicious domination underlying the Confederacy. As Nietzsche once said (and he was if anything an admirer of power) “Power makes stupid.” And that is what we see: growing stupidity combined with growing viciousness.
A pessimistic analysis is that America is so powerful and so afflicted that it can only regain some semblance of a decent society when it has self-destructed to the degree that the sane regions of the country have broken free from the insane. That will weaken what is left enough that we may turn our back on the insane militarism that describes our relations with so much of the world, and increasingly internally as well. There is much that is good here, but it is consistently undermined by what is vicious.