1.) INTRO—Police
Brutality Cop Slams Man’s Head into Wall 01:36/2014 Extreme Police
Luke 8:17 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest,
nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. (ESV)
Huffington Post 1/23/2014
A whopping 99 percent of all complaints regarding police brutality are left uninvestigated in
central New Jersey, according to a Courier News and Home News Tribune report
published this week.
Between 2008 and 2012, citizens "filed hundreds
of complaints alleging brutality, bias and civil rights violations by officers
in more than seven dozen police departments in Central Jersey," the report
reads. However, it adds that only 1 percent of these complaints -- seven
percentage points below
the national average of 8 percent --
were "upheld by the internal units tasked with investigating complaints
against their colleagues."
In
the majority of cases, the police agencies reportedly "either 'exonerated'
the officers, dismissed the complaints as frivolous, determined that they did
not have sufficient evidence or simply never closed the investigation."
Although
an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union called these numbers
"serious," the report quotes a South Brunswick police chief who
insists that the agencies "do a good job of self-policing."
Representatives of the Union County and Somerset Prosecutor’s Offices were also
quoted as saying that investigations are conducted when they are warranted.
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We are to obey the
Governing Authorities
Matthew
5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the sons of God. (ESV)
Romans
13:1-14 Let every person be subject to
the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those
that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the
authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur
judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you
have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will
receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do
wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant
of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one
must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath, but also for the sake of
conscious. (ESV)
The Police
are supposed to UPHOLD and OBEY the law too.
2.) BREAK--2014
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Police are
Lying about Events and covering them up! God sees all!!!
Exodus 23:8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the
clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. (ESV)
Proverbs 21:2-8 A person may think their own ways are right, but the
Lord weighs the heart. To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the
Lord than sacrifice. Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the unplowed field of the
wicked—produce sin. The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste
leads to poverty. A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a
deadly snare. The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse
to do what is right. The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the
innocent is upright. (NIV)
Proverbs 21:10-18 The wicked crave evil: their neighbors get no mercy
from them. When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; by paying
attention to the wise they get knowledge. The Righteous One takes not of the house of the wicked
and brings the wicked to ruin. Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of
the poor will also cry out and not be answered. A gift given in secret soothes
anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath. When justice is
done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. Whoever strays
from the path of prudence comes to rest in the company of the dead. Whoever
loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be
rich. The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the
upright. (NIV)
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much
more so when brought with evil intent! A false witness will perish, but a
careful listener will testify successfully. The wicked put up a bold front, but
the upright give thought to their ways. There is not wisdom, no insight, no
plan that can succeed against the Lord. (NIV)
3.)BREAK—2014
Extreme Police
Repent of
your Sins
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us from all unrighteousness. (ESV)
Ezekiel 18:21-23 “But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins
that he has committed and keeps all my statues and does what is just and right,
he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions that he has
committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has
done he shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares
the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? (ESV)
Proverbs 28:13 Whoever conceals his transgression will not prosper,
but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. (ESV)
2 Samuel 12 Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. And he came to
him, and said to him: “There were two men in once city, one rich and the other
poor. The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds. But the poor man had
nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had brought and nourished; and it
grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and
drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.
And a traveler came to the rich man, who refused to take from his own flock and
from his own herd to prepare one for the wayfaring man who had come to him; but
he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”
So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan,
“As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore
fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had not pity.”
Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel:
‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I
gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and
gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also
would have given you much more! Why have you despised the commandment of the
Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the
Sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the
sword of the people of Ammon. Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from
your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be your wife.’ Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold I will raise up adversity
against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes
and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of
this sun. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel,
before the sun.” So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And
Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.”
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