The Black Suspect
On October 16, 2014, a police officer arrived at the scene
of a disturbance on a Chicago street.
By now you have probably seen the video. That cop exited his vehicle and according to the dashcam video 6 seconds later shot the teenager
who was walking down the street and away from the police. The teen fell to the
ground, the cop then shot the child 15 more times. He emptied his gun into that Black child’s
body.
The other cops stood and watched and apparently only
intervened when he attempted to reload.
I say ‘apparently only intervened” because there is no
sound, the only sound is deadly silence.
Why was it erased? Were some of the cops hooting and hollering and
egging him on? We don’t know, we will probably never know.
What we do know is that boy died on a Chicago street; he had
neither hurt nor killed anyone. He died
on that street that night simply for Walking While Black.
The video and the autopsy showed the Mayor, the prosecutor
and other Chicago officials knew what happened on October 17th,
2014. A day after the murder.
That police officer remained at work and was finally
arrested and charged with FIRST DEGREE MURDER on November 24th,
2015, 15 months and one week after that murder was committed. The arrest was made because a judge,
practicing law NOT politics had given the city a deadline of November 25th
to release the video. Reporters had sued
and obtained the autopsy report and the order to release the video.
The White Terrorist
Friday, November 27th, 2015, also known as Black
Friday, some of us are fortunate to be home with our families and friends,
while others go to work.
But this year, there were families mourning and others
concerned about their loved ones, because on Friday the news broke that
there was an active shooter outside a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado
Springs.
The shooter was in the clinic. He killed 3 people and
injured 9. He shot and killed a police officer and wounded 5 others.
The shooter, a mass murderer, another white American
terrorist was apprehended. He is, as I
write this, alive in a jail in Colorado. He was not shot multiple times by the
responding officers, even though there were officers down.
He was apprehended.
I want you to think about the above, I want you to think
about the differences in the behavior. I
want you to ask yourself why is this happening.
Why has it been happening for years and is now only being exposed by the
technology known as cell phones. I want
you to ask yourself why the Federal government waited until this week to decide
to track shootings of civilians by the police.
And last but most importantly, I want you to think about the
fact that Laquan McDonald was shot 6
seconds after Jason Van Dyke arrived at the scene.
Robert Dear engaged the police for 5 hours before he was finally arrested, alive and unharmed.
These are 2 incidents of Life in America in Black and White.
I so much agree, June. We are living in a "police state" today. We are threatened by the power of government, police, technology, our compliant nature with wrong, the loss of human rights and much more; and if you are a black person or any minority, then there's an entirely different standard for you vs. a non-minority. No doubt about it. Civil rights just brought more hypocrisy and facade to cover-up and hide old problems. What was genuine in the south was just as disingenuous in the north. Today the south is more like the north and the north hasn't budged. It's those surfaced over and "swept under the rug" lies we permit because it always affects someone else. We are a society that pretends its gregariousness but really lives separate and apart from the people different in any way. It's rather neolithic if you think about it.
ReplyDeleteWhat is spoken and said by authority anymore is always qualified and laced caveats that have no bearing on administering justice or Christian values anymore. But man will be man, and he is an imperfect being that prefers the venal over the fair way of living with others. Where are the churches and the firebrand voices of a truly "free press" anymore, the "soapy rag" that can can expose and help stop the lies and hypocrisies? Well, they've done away with it. Why you ask? To extend their corrupt power and control. It's fully obvious now if not before. No, what we've lost, or ever had, in this country from its beginning is a moral heart or true conscience of our ethical. Fix that and you could, just maybe, fix the world__a tall order. Our Christian values speak of this, and no one listens; so it has to be our stupidity or a people preferring their "make-believe" and adversarial ways over reality.
Yeah, no question. As you point out, Laquan was shot six seconds after the police arrived at the scene. Dylan Roof was given lunch, incl a milk shake, when he was arrested after Charleston.
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