Tuesday, May 12, 2015

POLICE SHOOTINGS IN AMERICA: dumb and dumber

All of the shootings are a tragedy, no doubt. I'm sorry any of them happened, regardless of the facts surrounding the deaths. What tugs at me are the racial components here in America involved in all of them.
     In almost all of them it reads like this:              WHITE COP SHOOTS BLACK SUSPECT.
                                                                               Neighborhood (black) up in arms, riot ensues.
     Ferguson, Missouri, the ancestral home of the Jesse James clan, New York City,  and Baltimore have recently been sites of the most violent race riots following the killings of black men by white officers.kn
    Mostly black citizens of those towns violently rioted destroying anything they could, burning, looting, destroying everything. In all three cases. The police officers were charged after a careful investigation by police administration AND outside third party sources. Ultimately, Ferguson's officer was absolved, but you wouldn't know it by watching the nightly news cast.
Seven witnesses testified he was not guilty of any charges leveled against him. Acquitted and released, to this day, he endures daily death threats.
    The same story in the New York City case-demonstrations, city police in the streets.
    The Baltimore case against six police officers is so weak it is been judged as a possible dismissal. At the very least, they will move the case out of the city and probably out of state.
    Three hours before I write this another such case happened in Wisconsin - Identical. The DA, a young black man, released the officer after a two hour examination of the facts. He sent the cop home after clearing him of any wrong doing. All of this leads me to one conclusion:
    The racial animosity prevalent in all the large cities policed by white officers is this: as the white police are judged and found not guilty by a jury of their peers.
    A mob of angry blacks, seem to declare GUILTY before the sun goes down,& want vengeance. They still cry out for " justice."  They feel the " system" hasn't worked for them. There is a
mis-understanding of how the legal system works. Arrest, charge, booking, possible bail hearing, trail date, trail, possible imprisonment or judgement.
     The street people do not understand any of this. When they see the policeman go to jail in cuffs, they feel elated, When the system releases him, they're reaction is " the MAN" has let them down again.
     They do not know that they do NOT KNOW.
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