What’s on my mind? Mmmm. Well, I will tell you what’s on my mind Facebook: Maudie Mary Bird, one of the first Indigenous Female Police Officers for the OPP and the first female officer when NAPS started.
She told me this story once that I thought was great, about ‘use of force’ training. She was at Block training and they were all in this circle, about to start. There was a guy in the middle, he was padded and protected and was the ‘person’ all the officers were supposed to get out of the circle.
So they all went one by one, and the officers were pulling and tugging and dragging and ‘forcing’ this person out of the circle. Then Mary’s turn came. She said, “I went into the circle and he was sitting on the ground and I tapped him and said ‘excuse me, would you like to come with me?’” She said that he nodded, then got up, and walked right out of the circle with her.
A couple of lessons in that apply to what’s happening in the world right now but I won’t point them out. I will just say that at the time, I thought it was a damn good story.
#MaryBird #NAPS #WhatIsRememberedIsWhatLives
CreeGirl in a lonely world. 