Epoch Times - How I Got from Hating the Police to Joining the Police  #californiainsider #police
Aired: 2023-10-21
Duration: 00:52

[00:00:00]  I hated law enforcement officers.
[00:00:01]  I was guided to the thought as an African-American male that the police were inherently my enemy.
[00:00:05]  I was racially profiled a couple of times that left a negative taste in my mouth.
[00:00:08]  So I hated police officers.
[00:00:10]  I really did.
[00:00:11]  And a friend of mine and an uncle who was a police officer said, why don't you join the police force?
[00:00:15]  We're looking to hire African-Americans.
[00:00:16]  They're like, what?
[00:00:16]  That police force?
[00:00:17]  Are you kidding me?
[00:00:18]  Oh, hell no, right?
[00:00:19]  That was me.
[00:00:20]  You know, I'm not going to do that, you know.
[00:00:22]  So...
[00:00:22]  I ended up joining the police department begrudgingly.
[00:00:25]  You know, I put my name in so many different hats.
[00:00:27]  I wanted to be everything but a cop.
[00:00:29]  And out of all the jobs I applied for, the only one that called me was the police department.
[00:00:33]  My only goal was to join the police department for three years, make a little money, save a little money, and find something else and get the hell out of here.
[00:00:39]  But I ended up falling in love, and I discovered that 90% of what was being said about police officers was absolutely false.
[00:00:44]  I worked with officers from all walks of life, black, white, Hispanic, and they were all just decent people doing a tough job.
[00:00:50]  They weren't all inherently racist.