Don't be dead right

A right or freedom is something that prevents or corrects a wrong.
A right or freedom is not something that precipitates a wrong.
The reaction defines the rightfulness of an action.

Each video of a bad policeman stupidly over-reacting and killing a black person is amazing given the library of similar stupidity. How can a policeman think his stupidity is not being recorded by someone's cellphone?

Each video of a black person stupidly antagonizing or igknowing a policeman thus risking a stupid policeman response, one must ask if the person did not get the "Talk" or if they had forgotten it?

In both cases, it is unfathomable get why people would consciously put their careers and lives on the line by being another example of streetwise stupidity.

One who wants to argue rights with a policeman risks a stupid policeman's response. When one argues rights with a policeman, one is risking being dead right. The courts, not the streets, are where rights need to be argued.

Citizens interactng with police need to do the math on who wins the argument. Who argues more often and has more experience arguing in a police-citizen interaction? The policeman or the citizen. It is almost like a naive virgin defending her honor with a successful Casnova. And, in the end, the policeman can and has ended many arguments with deadly force, right or wrong.

Yes, Black Lives Matter. However, and as a rule, if a citizen is like Caeser's wife, one won't find oneself in risky situations. As it is the case that police have more experience in arguing down a citizen, so does many of the dead right citizens have a history of crossing the legal-illegal line. It goes without saying that minor offenses do not warrant fatal endings. A citizen ia a fool to try to lie one's way out of a compomised situation which may work with the average Joe public, but not with an officer who finds that lies are a common way of life for many, e.g., the original habitual offenders--politicians.

Both stupid police and stupid citizens aggravate and escalate the confrontation because of their anger engines.

One may have a reason to be angry. But, one never has a right to be angry. Consistently, anger is wrong leading to problems beyond the reason for the anger.

This writer has been twice falsely arrested and incarcerated. In both cases, a judge reversed the incarceration with the record being expunged. During jailjhouse processing into the locked facilities, the handlers were entertained with corny jokes because there was nothing to be gained by being unpleasant and angry.

Remember the successes of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They knew they had reasons to be angry but there was nothing right in being angry whether as a person or as a group.

To repeat, if you are right, don't let your anger foolishly and stupidly risk your being dead right. Live for another day. Strive to find rights in the legal system.