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Originally Posted by bpcyclist
Well, finally got tired and fell asleep around 0530 or so. Just never got tired. Got about four hours, then, ready to go again. It is always a challenge for me to try to anticipate and correctly identify--am I getting hypo again, or, is this just average, unstable bipolar sleep stuff? I can never tell, it seems, so, we'll just have to wait and see.
Yesterday was better for me. Was able to write a chapter in the novel. It went well. I was engaged and somewhat creative and I enjoyed writing. That feeling has just been almost totally absent for quite awhile. My amotivation has been collosal lately. Again, always tough to know--am I getting into a depression mode? Am I just having a BirdDancer blip? Dunno, I just do not know how to tell into more is revealed.
So far this morning, not blue, not hopeless, and did not wake up in a negative loop pathway thing. Maybe today will be a pretty good day.
I unintentionally watched the video of that man in Atlanta who was shot and killed by police. As most know, there are few people more critical of big-city American policing than me. That said, waching that film, which I totally did not want to see, it just came on and I glanced up, anyway, if they charge that officer with any kind of a seriosu crime, I personally, having seen what I saw, think it might be very unfair to that officer. The guy turned around and suddenly aimed a long object at that officer with no warning. It could easily have been a gun. easily. No one is bigger about civil rights than me, I don't think, but thta must have been terrifying for that officer to see something aimed at him without any warning or time to talk about it. Just my personal take and I am sure others will disagree
Love and hugs to all!!!!!!
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I agree. To me the situations are not apples to apples. The cop who lost the tazer knew the man had a tazer. The other cop could have assumed he grabbed his partner's gun. In a split second situation like that there isn't time to gather Intel. I do think alternative choices could have been made and we should always strive to protect life, but I can see why it unfolded like it did.
In the George Floyd case the cop had control and then leveraged his power to kill. In this case there was no control and the life of the officers and the people surrounding him were potentially in danger.
I feel like for this to stop we need technology to arm police with that keeps everyone safe. I'd love to see a device that puts a force field around a subject that stops them and keeps them from harming themselves or anyone else while a discussion can occur allowing time for everyone to calm before proceeding. Or maybe it stops them long enough to allow a third party mediator to intervene.
I don't have a lot of ideas, but I'd love for us to reimagine how everything works using methods to ensure life for all.