Hate Groups Like The KKK Are Not Designated Terrorist Organizations/​Police Treat White Mass Killers With Deference

Payton S. Gendron, 18, shot 13 peo­ple on Saturday after­noon, May 14^th, at a Tops super­mar­ket in east Buffalo, killing 10, police said. Almost all the vic­tims were Black. Needless to ask, the race of Gendron.
It was­n’t the first time that a cau­casian despot had decid­ed to cow­ard­ly snuff out the lives of unsus­pect­ing peo­ple of col­or as they go about their dai­ly lives; it will most assured­ly not be the last.
The tri­als ad tra­vails of Black peo­ple at the hands of demons like these are far too many to doc­u­ment, and God knows far too numer­ous to men­tion in this short essay.

On the night of June 17, 2015, 21-year-old Dylann Roof entered the pre­dom­i­nant­ly black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., and opened fire on a group of con­gre­gants dur­ing Bible study. The Black con­gre­gants had wel­comed the evil degen­er­ate warm­ly after he entered the sacred place of wor­ship. Nine (9) parish­ioners lay dead by the time he was done, includ­ing senior pas­tor and state sen­a­tor Clementa C Pinckney. Their only crime was the col­or of their skin; the rea­son for their untime­ly demise was the cor­ro­sive and poi­so­nous hatred in the hearts of their killers.
The poi­son is being spewed on the polit­i­cal right, enam­ored with the intel­lec­tu­al but cor­ro­sive racist gib­ber­ish from Donald Trump and his fol­low­ers and embraced by the Republican Party.
Like tens of thou­sands of peo­ple of all col­ors, my wife Cheryl and I went to South Carolina. We stood on the ground at Mother Emanuel AME Church and paid our respects to the inno­cent vic­tims, our names scratched in sharpie on a wall, des­per­ate to con­nect and grieve for the vic­tims like thou­sands before us did.
Dillon Roofe was arrest­ed and tak­en into cus­tody; he did not sus­tain a sin­gle injury from the offi­cers who arrest­ed him. in fact, offi­cers who arrest­ed Roofe treat­ed him to a Burger King meal. They claimed the mass killer was hun­gry, so offi­cers went out of their way to get him a meal.

Sadly in America, a 12-year-old Black child play­ing with a toy gun is mer­ci­less­ly gunned down by Police, while a 21-year-old dement­ed mass killer is arrest­ed with­out inci­dent and treat­ed to a meal by police.
Time and again, we see police vicious­ly gun down inno­cent peo­ple of col­or for the slight­est infrac­tion, often­times for no infrac­tion; yet white males who mer­ci­less­ly and cow­ard­ly gun down unsus­pect­ing peo­ple just going about their dai­ly lives are arrest­ed and treat­ed with def­er­ence and respect.

A Black man shop­ping in a Walmart that sells guns was mur­dered by police for hav­ing a gun in the store that sells guns. A 75-year-old Hispanic woman who suf­fered from demen­tia and had a men­tal episode was mur­dered in her New Mexico home by police for hav­ing two knives and not fol­low­ing orders to drop the weapons.
Family mem­bers rued the thought that made them call the police for help.
What is it about American Police that makes them so def­er­en­tial to white killers and bit­ter­ly vio­lent toward peo­ple of color?
Writing for News, one Bruce C T Wright said, ‘only in America can police respond to sep­a­rate calls for sim­i­lar inci­dents and have two dras­ti­cal­ly dif­fer­ent results depend­ing on the race of the sus­pect.’
‘That truth was impos­si­ble to ignore on Saturday when 18-year-old Payton Gendron drove four hours to a super­mar­ket in a Black com­mu­ni­ty in Buffalo, New York, where he opened fire with an assault rifle and killed at least 10 peo­ple and injured at least three oth­ers. He was safe­ly tak­en into cus­tody fol­low­ing the carnage’.

An armed white man who alleged­ly shot and injured a police offi­cer after bar­ri­cad­ing him­self in a home dur­ing a stand­off with police man­aged to be peace­ful­ly arrest­ed in North Hollywood, California, in June of last year. Police respond­ed to a report­ed active shoot­ing and some­how took the armed man into cus­tody with­out resort­ing to the lethal force we see offi­cers use so many times with unarmed Black people.
Peter Manfredonia was arrest­ed in Maryland six days after he alleged­ly killed a 62-year-old man with a machete, held anoth­er man hostage, stole the hostage’s guns and vehi­cle, killed a for­mer class­mate, and kid­napped the for­mer classmate’s girl­friend in her car in Connecticut.
Roger Hedgpeth was arrest­ed a block away from the White House after threat­en­ing to kill the pres­i­dent of the United States. The Florida man was armed with a sheathed knife on his left hip, accord­ing to a report from The Washington Post.

Benjamin Murdy of Harford County, Maryland fired near­ly 200 rounds from a rifle and a hand­gun, while “police nev­er fired a sin­gle shot,” accord­ing to WMAR Baltimore. After an hour-and-a-half stand­off with Harford County police, the Maryland man even­tu­al­ly called 911 and turned him­self in. Despite the evi­dent threat Murdy posed to the arrest­ing offi­cers – a threat that has result­ed in the killing of many Black sus­pects – Murdy was tak­en into cus­tody peace­ful­ly and lat­er charged.

Florida woman Serina Probus was accused of two sep­a­rate vio­lent felonies, one of which the 20-year-old admit­ted to being “too high on cocaine to remem­ber,” the Tampa Bay Times report­ed. Despite the clear threat to the safe­ty of the arrest­ing offi­cers — a threat that police have quick­ly killed Black sus­pects over — Probus was some­how able to be peace­ful­ly tak­en into cus­tody and as a result, smiled proud­ly in her mugshot. Her treat­ment stood in stark con­trast to how cops typ­i­cal­ly react to Black sus­pects accused of the same or less.

Jerri Kelly decid­ed the best reac­tion to four Black teenagers who knocked on her door while fund-rais­ing for their high school was to pull a gun on them and keep her firearm aimed at them until police arrived. While the obvi­ous­ly racist episode that unfold­ed in Arkansas result­ed in Kelly being arrest­ed, it took the Wynne Police Department — which arrived on the scene to see Kelly hold­ing the boys at gun­point while they were forced to lie on the ground — five days to actu­al­ly take her into custody.

Bryan Riley, high on metham­phet­a­mines, killed four peo­ple he didn’t know on Sept. 2, 2021, includ­ing a baby, a moth­er, and a grand­moth­er before shoot­ing at police and lat­er sep­a­rate­ly attack­ing a dif­fer­ent offi­cer in Florida. And yet, in spite of those truths, police nev­er felt a threat to their lives enough to do any­thing more than take Riley safe­ly into cus­tody with­out resort­ing to lethal force.
What do all of these vio­lent offend­ers have in com­mon White skin, these exam­ples are thank­ful­ly com­pli­ments to Bruce Wright’s research.
The num­ber of inci­dents in which police safe­ly take vio­lent white mass killers into cus­tody while mur­der­ing Black and Brown peo­ple, even the sick, elder­ly, and para­plegics are stun­ning. It speaks to the deep-seat­ed racism that exists in American polic­ing and may even mean as some believe that the only rea­son the KKK is not des­ig­nat­ed a ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion is that they are no longer wear­ing white sheets but police uniforms.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, a free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.