T-Bone is a massively-built spiritual ex-Marine, who uses fighting skills to stop prison rape. T-Bone’s latest letter from Arizona prison:
Seeing all of this Black Lives Matter in
the news made several things come to mind from my past. There are instances
where I was treated like I was from outer space by the police!
I was in a car with a friend of mine
named Tony and the cops stopped us. Tony’s a white guy, and they treated him
with kindness and respect. They asked him to step out of the car, then one cop
put his hand in the driver side window with a gun, and the other cop pointed
his weapon at my head through the passenger’s side window.
“Go ahead, nigger, move. Just move and
I’ll kill, you fu..ing nigger.”
Why? Because I am black in a car with a
white guy in a public park, eating a Starvin Marvin’s sandwich at 12:50 pm. The
park was Reed Park in a nice part of Tucson.
They took me out of the car, threw my
food in the dirt, grabbed my arms and made me lay down on my food for over an
hour, while they tried to talk Tony into saying I was doing him some type of
wrong.
At the jail, they ended up questing us
for possession of weed. The weed had been in Tony’s pocket. They let us go, with
me having being bitten by the ants all over my neck and face, and arms.
I was told to go to a neighborhood watch
committee to get help because of what the police had done to me. We did, but
they just played games and kept passing the buck!
Then there was a time when some of the
guys I grew up with were standing outside after we had finished eating. The police
came after us with dogs and shotguns. I was only 3 with 11 and 12 year old
black boys, who were eating after a basketball game.
Did it affect us? Yes, it did. I still
do have a distrust of white police officers because of how they have treated me
over the years. But God has healed a major part of my heart! I know this for
sure that if God wasn’t with me, that cop would have shot me! I look at the situation
and see how they purposely went after me because I am black.
I am in here innocent. I didn’t rob anyone.
At trial, a woman said that I didn’t threaten her, and that I took money off of
the counter, with no proof, no cameras, no nothing, just her word. Not one
thing is consistent with anything she said in the police reports.
I am going to stop for now because a kid
in here has some problems with meth addiction. I love you all. Be at peace.
Each one – Teach one – Strength + Honor
Steel Embrace.
T-Bone
Shaun Attwood
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