grr

feeling angry about the whole vancouver situation. not entirely sure of what i want to say or how i want to say it because i’m not entirely sure how i feel. i’m anti violence, but i’m anti being stupid with cops. i’m anti assuming people speak english, but i’m anti travelling without enough knowledge of native language of where you are to say “i need help!”.

i grew up being taught that no matter if you’re right or wrong you just go with what the cops say, the worst that can happen is making them understand once the weapons are put away. and now….gah.

i don’t know why people always assume certain things.

i don’t know why people always think the cops are bad

i don’t know why the bad cops get away with it

i don’t know why people don’t understand the “stop running, explain later” thing.

so many things i don’t understand…..i’d like to try and avoid the entire situation, i’d like to make all evidence of stupidity (on EVERYONE’s part) disappear. i’d like to be able to go up to every single person who has bashed the RCMP, who has bashed the man who died, who has bashed security, who has bashed the guy filming, everyone…..and tell them to wait. not to pass judgement, not to assume you know what happened, not to generalize. not to think that any polish person coming into canada will be treated the same way.

i’d also love some form of…time machine (or something?) to put them (the bashers) in the same situation as a multitude of people in the same room/area and see how they felt….see how scared they were, see how happy they were to see professional help show up. to see what it felt like to be in a cops position with this man who was yelling at you, who was acting completely whack…..everything.

i’m surprised i typed this much. no mas.