Misguided Effort (March 28, 2016)

To the members

Of Black Lives Matter

I ask you

This important question.

Shouldn't we

Be protesting

The lost of another life

By a Toronto constable

Regardless

Of one's skin colour?

Will admit

There's racism

Throughout Canadian society

Among

All ethnic groups.

I wonder

If Mr. Loku

Had been Arabic

Or Asian

Would your zeal

Still

Be here?

Sadly

I know

What the answer is:

NO!

As you seek

Your simple solution

To a complex question.

As I continue

My silent campaign

Pushing for real change

How Toronto Police

Handles those calls

Dealing with

The mentally ill.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: The real crime, is how Toronto Police, deals with those calls that involved disturbed mentally ill people. For the Police service has been too slow, in their respond, to real change, in their operating procedures, in this area. How many more people, regardless, of one's skin colour, must die from a police bullet, before change happens. I speak, as a person, has struggled, with mental illness, for most of my life. The biggest tactical error, the police are making, is yelling, given these people may be disassociating, and they don't hear the tone, or the words that is being used, upon them. Escalating, the already stressful situation, to the point, the police officer may feel the need to use violent force to protect themselves.