This story begins in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the University of Michigan where activists were protesting the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

      As a result of that protest, Dr. Catherine Wilkerson, a respected community physician who provided medical care to working-class people at a local clinic, was charged with two crimes stemming from an encounter with local and campus police. She had to go to trial to overturn false accusations made against her by the police.

      During a protest against the war on Iraq and threats of war on Iran, University of Michigan police brutalized and arrested three activists.

      After brutalizing one protester and threatening him with pepper spray directly in the face, the police pinned him to the ground in a manner that can result in suffocation. As the man groaned in agony, the officer crushed the protester's chest with his knee while his victim was face down on the floor. The man was gasping for breath, to tell them he could not breathe before collapsing unconscious.

      Dr. Wilkerson identified herself as a physician and demanded access to the man in order to examine him and determine if his life was in danger. After much resistance from the police, Dr. Wilkerson was allowed to examine the man and determined he was still alive. An ambulance with paramedics from the fire department and the Ann Arbor police arrived on the scene.

      The public thinks of them as separate entities from the police, but they are generally welded together into one state of mind as you are about to see. In fact, some firemen wear police badges these days. A little noticed fact of life in the growing police State. But we are in the business of building the seeing eye of Christ. Be careful how you talk to firemen and fire department paramedics. They tend to have a bullish police State attitude like the police.

      Dr. Wilkerson is an educated woman, undoubtedly knowledgeable in her profession, but she was naive in regard to the growing police State in America until they showed her their true spirit.

      Had she remained silent, she might have forgotten about the horrible scene she was witnessing. The business of this life occupies our minds.

      When the unarmed public stands up to police brutality, they receive a quick education on why our founding fathers Constitutionalized the right to bear arms. We are supposed to police the police, but they have disarmed us in their quest for more power.

      Suffering is not desireable, but we sometimes recognize the good in it after the fact. Brutalizing Dr. Wilkerson was needful for her continuing education.

      The Potter put his hands on her clay. He is "the hand of man" according to the Word of God. The pain was excruciating. Something she could not quickly forget.

      Now the beloved doctor knows the truth. Police brutality exists in America.

      The public desperately needs to know the facts. As long as the police are able to obscure the testimony of a reliable witness like Dr. Wilderson by filing multiple charges against her to protect themselves from accountability, they cannot be brought to justice. The public desperately needs to be educated.

      Dr. Wilkerson was forcibly kept aside. One of the medics held one ammonia inhalant after another directly under the patient's nose, culminating with cupping his hands over the man's nose while he forced him to inhale the third capsule of the noxious gas. This caused the man to retch and nearly vomit as the medic taunted him, "You don't like that, do you?"

      Dr. Wilkerson was outraged by the dangerous behaviour of the police and medics in punishing their victim with impunity. She told the medics, "What you are doing has no efficacy and is punitive, and you know it."

      Dr. Wilkerson was brutalized for speaking out.

      Police grabbed her from behind, wrenched her arms behind her, slammed her against a wall and held her there as she begged him to release his painful grip. The officer then detained her against her will for a long period of time, forcing her to stand in a hallway in spite of the pain her shoulder was in.

      Dr. Wilkerson was not arrested. This worked as a deception causing her to think she could would receive an apology from the police department. What she had witnessed had to be just a couple of bullies who need to be disciplined.

      She registered a complaint of police brutality at City Hall. One week after filing her complaint, she was shocked to find a letter in the mail from the county prosecutor informing her she was being charged with attempted assaulting, resisting and obstructing a police officer and a paramedic.

      Dr. Wilkerson faced jail time and fines if she was convicted.

      This is Dr. Wilkerson's statement:

      "When I became a doctor I knew I would encounter a lot of human suffering, but I never envisioned a time when my efforts to alleviate it would get me brutalized by the police, then charged with a crime. I never envisioned a time when I would witness another health "professional" brazenly violate the most fundamental principle of medical ethics: first do no harm. But thirty years after graduation, at a political event on the campus of the University of Michigan, those things happened."

      As you can see from the response Dr. Wilkerson received after filing a police brutality complaint, police departments are not accustomed to repenting for their sins. Quite the contrary, they will accuse their accusers knowing the public is inclined to side with them. By making their accuser into a defendent, they put her on the defense.

      The poor living in ghetto like circumstances tend to know what to expect from the police. They see police bullying regularly in their neighborhoods. But the middle and upper classes tend to be insolated from the police.

      Dr. Wilkerson won her court case, but she was told not to come to work at the Packard Community Clinic anymore. Perhaps God has a special call upon her life now that she has been baptized into the sufferings of the poor and disenfranchised masses of this country.