BGPD: Policing, Racism and Rats

Early Sunday morning the Bowling Green Police Department responded to an incident that occurred outside a local Bowling Green club because Lewis Hart was reportedly stabbed. The BGPD immediately identified Marcus Ruiz as a suspect in the alleged stabbing and then went public with the information to the news and on social media. The BGPD also noted that Ruiz’s mugshot in an orange jail jumpsuit was provided by the Lucas County Sherriff’s Department.

First, the BGPD obtained a booking picture from the Lucas County Sherriff’s Department showing Ruiz in an orange jail jumpsuit. The picture portrays to the public that Ruiz is a criminal because why else would the LCSD have a mugshot of him? But what the BGPD did not disclose was that you can have a booking photo for a lot of reasons, for example if you get arrested for unpaid child support or traffic tickets, and minor offenses like possession of small amounts of marijuana. And the BGPD also did not disclose that the charge for which the LCSD obtained Ruiz’s booking picture for was ultimately dismissed. Yet the BGPD used the LCSD picture to portray Ruiz as a criminal when as of yet he is not.

Second, the police are not supposed to be biased, or to take sides. Why would the BGPD excitedly state, “We hope to provide you with our own booking photo soon!” The answer is, because the BGPD already took a side and without talking to Ruiz, trying to locate him at his house, or using other photos that were obtainable, wanted the public to believe Ruiz was some dangerous convicted criminal. Please be on the lookout for this Mexican with the neck tattoo.

At the same time that the BGPD was portraying Ruiz in a biased negative light, the alleged victim was making his own posts stating he wasn’t going to fight Mexicans anymore because they have pokers and know how to swing them. This statement shows Hart’s intent was to fight Ruiz, but Ruiz did not want to fight. In fact, Ruiz was trying to get to the safety of his car when Hart and a group of about ten of Hart’s friends followed Ruiz out to fight–which means assault when the other person does not want to fight.

Just like one person’s fight is another person’s assault; one person’s group of friends is another person’s gang. Some people commenting on BGPD’s post refuse to believe Hart was affiliated with a gang.

So why didn’t the BGPD post any photos of Hart’s posts throwing gang signs? Or his neck tattoo? Again, why did the BGPD choose to portray Ruiz in the worst possible way but hide from the public’s eye what they already knew, or had reason to know, which was that Hart was the aggressor and not some innocent victim whom the criminal Mexican with a neck tattoo stabbed.

Which brings me to the rats. Oh, the dirty cheese-eating rats! I accused all the people who shared the BGPD’s post of being cheese-eating dirty rats, and I’ll double down and stand on that. Here’s why . . .

If you help the police in any way you are supporting the police. And when you help spread biased, racist, oppressive news and information being fed to you by the police, you are a rat. Plain and simple. It’s the police’s job to investigate, gather evidence, and apprehend suspects and fugitives. And the police are supposed to do that without jumping to conclusions. We’re not talking about helping the police locate a missing toddler or Amber. Rather, we are talking about helping the BGPD convict Ruiz in the public eye based upon a false narrative. Only snitches do that, because it’s like cheese-crack to a dirty rat.