Is There Anything, Anything Which A Cop Can Do To An African-American That Will Get Him Indicted

It has been clear since slav­ery that blacks were not going to receive any­thing in America they are not pre­pared to fight and die for. For sev­er­al years now I have been lament­ing that the sac­ri­fices made by great Martyrs like Malcolm X and King among oth­ers are being squan­dered. I the­o­rized that this would come back to haunt Black-America. Unfortunately that time is here.
President Obama wants cops to wear body cam­era, as a way for America to see what Police offi­cers are doing in their name. As much as I sup­port the pres­i­den­t’s ini­tia­tive, I won­der what effect it will have when Prosecutors and Grand Juries take it upon them­selves to cir­cum­vent the law.
Eric Garner was killed on cam­era, in broad daylight.
Daniel M. Donovan Jr. Staten Island District Attorney indict­ed the young man who record­ed the killing on his cell-phone. Cops con­ve­nient­ly arrest­ed him pass­ing a gun to a woman. 
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo who killed Eric Garner will not be asked to answer in a state court for his actions.
Ramsey Orta, 22, was alleged­ly arrest­ed out­side a known drug loca­tion on Staten Island by nar­cotics offi­cers who claimed Orta placed a hand­gun in his com­pan­ion’s waist­band, the New York Police Department said. Orta report­ed­ly told cops “You’re just mad because I filmed your boy,”.
Fast track to Ferguson Missouri, There was active talk about indict­ing the step-father of Michael Brown who was heard on tape say­ing “lets burn this B$#@!& down”, in response to the news that Darren Wilson would not be indicted. 
These are the char­ac­ter­is­tics of a Police-state. Whenever cit­i­zens are not allowed to ques­tion or oth­er­wise demand answers of police, or hold them account­able, they are in a police state.
Police depart­ments are not laws onto them­selves. They are duty bound to obey the laws, even as they enforce them.
We are at crit­i­cal mass when peo­ple who pho­to­graph or record police crimes and fam­i­ly mem­bers already in griev­ing are tar­get­ed while killer cops walk free.

At this time there is much empha­sis on police depart­ments and indi­vid­ual offi­cers, the prob­lem is much deep­er than cops . There seem to be a sys­tem­at­ic effort on the part of pros­e­cu­tors to cov­er for cops. Some are con­vinced some Prosecutors are even crim­i­nal­ly com­plic­it in the way they han­dle pros­e­cu­tion evi­dence involv­ing cops in the grand jury process. Prosecutors are sup­posed to be ser­vants of the peo­ple. There is much talk about the grand jury process and what may have occurred or not in these secret proceedings.
lost in this noise is the fact that pros­e­cu­tors have the pow­er and indeed a duty to pros­e­cute crimes, irre­spec­tive of who the offend­er is sep­a­rate from the grand jury process.
When Prosecutors decide to go the route of the grand-jury in cas­es like the Eric Garner’s , they are abdi­cat­ing their respon­si­bil­i­ty to their oath at best. Worse case they are doing all in their pow­er in assist­ing cops who break the laws to escape prosecution.
All Americans have a stake in what is hap­pen­ing present­ly. Blacks Whites and and every­one else.

There is much to be said about black lead­er­ship, or more impor­tant­ly the absence of one. As young peo­ple take to the streets demand­ing a new direc­tion for their coun­try, old civ­il rights func­tionar­ies are still stuck using the old talk­ing-points about jobs.
This fight is not a fight about jobs right now, it is a fight for jus­tice and fair­ness. In some cas­es it is an exis­ten­tial fight. Lets fight this fight and not con­fuse this fight with oth­er issues.