ETHICAL DILEMMAS

Look before you leap . Such a simple thought , yet so difficult to follow . Knee-jerk reactions always have undesirable results . In this situation , I am just an intern , who is privileged even to be at the raid . I am still an outsider who does not have the complete information From the face of it , one can interpret the action of the officer in many ways . One way is that it is an obvious case of racism where the officer slaps the four Afro-American boys and ignores the two white men . But for all I

know , the white guys may have been the one to tip-off the authorities . Also , here we are assuming that the slapping officer is white and racist . Isn 't it possible that the officer himself is also African - American and is upset and hence more vociferous in his display of anger towards members of his own community who in turn spoil the name of the entire community ? Maybe , the slaps were just random and not racist . Also , the white guys could have been drug addicts and not dealers

Even if we assume that the officer 's behavior was racist , I don 't want to help the accused by calling the raiding officer a racist . A police officers raid is a battle , being fought by the law enforcement agency against the perpetuators of the crime . The police officers go in there as a team and at no point in the battle should you ever expose the fact that you...