Another Black Man Killed Unnecessarily

In these pages we repeat­ed­ly write about the mil­i­ta­riza­tion of police depart­ments all across America. We did not hear any­thing from the main stream media about this grow­ing trend, until this mas­sive buildup of mil­i­tary type power(not police) in Ferguson Missouri. CNN, MSNBC and oth­ers are just now awak­en­ing to the shock­ing impli­ca­tions of this.

This mas­sive mil­i­ta­riza­tion of America’s streets is noth­ing new. After the Boston Marathon Bombing ‚the world saw in shock­ing detail what the Right wing in America was warn­ing about all along.

The Right wing is silent about the takeover of America’s streets by, what for all accounts is mil­i­tary, not police. Apart from the bob­ble-heads on FOX ‚despite it’s pre­dic­tions com­ing to fruition the Right is deaf­en­ing­ly silent.

No sur­prise there, as long as the jack-boot­ed throngs with the sophis­ti­cat­ed mil­i­tary hard­ware are run­ning around killing and keep­ing the Blacks on the Reservation, the racist imbe­ciles on the right are satisfied.

However ‚this is not just about the imbe­ciles on the Right , it is also about the imbe­ciles on the left. What did they think would hap­pen when they gave all of that sur­plus mil­i­tary hard­ware to small town police depart­ments, many of which are staffed with semi-lit­er­ate Klans-men and women? 

The prob­lems which exist between peo­ple of African ances­try and the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem in America are deep and sophis­ti­cat­ed. Cops, Prosecutors, Juries, Judges, in many local­i­ties in America , it’s their world , every­one else lives in it. Justice is what they say it is.

The Ferguson police demon­strat­ed that it did not care what any­one thought about the way it han­dled affairs there, after one of it’s Agents cre­at­ed the sit­u­a­tion which present­ly exist.

Just yes­ter­day anoth­er African-American male was killed only a few miles from where Michael Brown was slaugh­tered and left in the broil­ing heat face down in his own blood for over five hours. Police in St Louis killed the 23 year-old who is report­ed­ly of unsound mind., just days on the heels of the ques­tion­able killing of Michael Brown. they said was act­ing erratically.

Police account:

Cops arrived, the sus­pect turned towards the offi­cers and start­ed to walk towards them clutch­ing his waist­band. He then pulled out a knife … and told the offi­cers, ‘Shoot me now. Kill me now,’ ” Reported Police Chief Sam Dotson. Responding offi­cers told the man, repeat­ed­ly, to stop and drop his knife, Dotson said. He con­tin­ued to approach, com­ing with­in about four feet of one of the offi­cers, Dotson said, adding that both offi­cers then fired their weapons, strik­ing the suspect.

The media quick­ly gob­bled up the PR stunt of Dotson and moved on. One reporter asked whether the cops who pulled the trig­ger were mind­ful of the sit­u­a­tion only a few miles away in Suburban Ferguson.?

Dotson retorted,quote ‚If you’re the fam­i­ly of a police offi­cer and some­body approach­es you with­in three feet with a knife, I think you have the right to defend your­self and pro­tect your­self. So I think it cer­tain­ly is rea­son­able that an offi­cer has an expec­ta­tion to go home at the end of the night,” .

The reporter did not both­er to fol­low up. Clearly it is rea­son­able that cops go home after their shift, in fact I have had many heat­ed con­ver­sa­tions with peo­ple who do not care whether cops go home as long as they do not step out of line. Dotson’s com­ments how­ev­er was an insult to peo­ples intel­li­gence. This sto­ry was swept under the rug because the life of the deceased is not valued.

No one both­ered to ask whether the trig­ger-hap­py cops could sim­ply have tazed the guy and take him to a Hospital. It would occur to me that if some­one is act­ing in an errat­ic man­ner , walk­ing up and down , say­ing shoot me, shoot me, clear­ly some­thing is wrong men­tal­ly. What about your taz­er? What about your pep­per spray? What about your baton? What about your train­ing? Or are you trained to pre­tend to observe the rules then kill?

What goes through the minds of these cops when they decide­ly pull the trig­ger and end some­one’s only life? Is there some­thing going on with police which the pub­lic is bliss­ful­ly unaware of?

Are they train­ing these cops to be mind­less robot­ic killers? I believe they are.

This killing like so many oth­ers will fade away into the next news cycle , in fact it did not even make the loop. The fact is cops should use lethal force as absolute­ly the last resort in defense of their own lives or that of anoth­er. Cops are giv­en taz­ers, pep­per spray, batons , train­ing, and they are giv­en guns. Society can­not con­tin­ue to allow cops to grab for a gun kill some­one and get away with it .

These two cops would not have shot a white male period.

Eric Holder the Nation’s chief law enforce­ment offi­cer is sched­uled to be in Ferguson Missouri today. At Martha’s Vineyard a vaca­tion­ing Barack Obama will receive reports from Holder first-hand, about the real­i­ties on the ground . It bears men­tion­ing that both President Obama and Attorney General Holder are black males. Nothing that Obama or Holder does will change the dis­re­spect­ful behav­ior of police toward the black community .