Under what circumstances would two black people kill a white jogger and an arrest wasn’t made?
Oh, scratch that, under what circumstances would a white person be killed without an entire police department out stopping every black person in sight, searching vehicles, busting down doors looking for the killer/s?
In fact, a command post would have been set up and a special task force set up specifically to find any n****r, and bring him in dead or alive.
If you cannot find the real killer bring any N****r, dead or alive, we don’t give a shit.
That is what happed to five black & brown boys after a white woman was violently sexually assaulted and left for dead in New York City’s Central Park on April 19, 1989.
The NYPD and prosecutors did not care that the group of boys hauled in by the cops were innocent. They wanted blood and any n****r blood would suffice. The boys were convicted and imprisoned, some in high places even took out full-page advertisements demanding that they are given the capital punishment/lynched.
Years later they were all exonerated as evidence surfaced that they had nothing to do with the assault.
More than two months ago a young man was jogging in a Georgia neighborhood when he was set upon by an armed father & son lynch mob and murdered, while another photographed the killing.
Their story, they [thought] he was burglarizing houses under construction and so they chased him down and killed him.
That explanation was good for investigating police officers and prosecutors, who simply shrugged and said: “ok, good enough, nothing to see here”.
And that was that!
A former prosecutor who had examined Arbery’s case told police the McMichaels acted within the scope of Georgia’s citizen arrest statute and that Travis McMichael fired his weapon in self-defense.
Not sure what the crime was as the decedent was not found with any property belonging to anyone.
I’m also at a loss as to why the pair of Rambo-wannabes did not simply pick up the phone and called police to relay their suspicions.
Although on second thought, that may have resulted in the very same outcome for Ahmaud Arbery.
Twenty-five-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down on the streets of the Brunswick neighborhood on that Tuesday night by former Brunswick District Attorney’s Office investigator Greg McMichael,& his son Travis McMichael on Feb. 23rd. Today is May 6th and neither of the two has been arrested for the murder of Arbury, much less charged criminally.
This evokes the memory of the small-time thug named George Zimmerman who murdered Trayvon Martin in Florida. Zimmerman attacked & murdered the teenager on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida claiming he looked suspicious.
Zimmerman claimed a stand your ground defense, despite being the one with the gun who approached and apprehended the teenager.
In typical American justice, Zimmerman was not arrested or charged until there was widespread worldwide condemnation of the incident and protests.
In the end, he was charged, a sham trial resulted, the six jurors — all of them women — deliberated for 16½ hours. Five of the women white; one a minority, [not black], possibly a [Hispanic], (the race of Zimmerman), returned a verdict of not guilty.
It is remarkable that the two vigilantes could murder Arbury, despite not having broached their first obligation, which was to call the police if they witnessed or suspected him of committing a crime, or may be about to commit a crime and not immediately be arrested.
Even if Ahmaud Arbery did commit a crime and was running down the street, they had no legal right much less authority to arm themselves and attempt to accost him under the guise of a *citizens arrest*, without(a) first having attempted to call the police,(b) follow safely behind, since they were determined to accost him at all cost.
The actions of Greg McMichael,& his son Travis McMichael is a modern-day lynching that cannot stand.
The attendant travesty of police & prosecutors in not immediately taking action to arrest the two, is anchored in slave-patrol laws and others which gave whites the power to kill black people without legal consequence.
As another national election cycle begin to heat up this incident is sure to suck up a lot of the oxygen and will certainly dominate conversations in the weeks and months to come.
None of that will bring Ahmaud Arbery back his family. The built-in principle that a black man has no right that a white man should respect is still an unspoken part of how black people are treated in America.
This is so in the way whites respond to blacks and how police enforce the laws.
Black skin in America is the equivalent of guilt, white skin innocence.
That concept is so built into the DNA of white people and by extension ‑the police, that a call to the police involving a white offender and a black victim will see the police arrive and almost always automatically go to the white offender to get an explanation of what happened?
Racism is insidious, it is dangerous, it has always been so. Unfortunately, black people have not fully mobilized to deal with this cancer that has killed tens maybe hundreds of millions of us over hundreds of years.
Whites on the right would simply like to deny that it exists. Whites on the left would like these instances of outright racist murders to be seen as isolated incidents, not a consequence of Americans’ perpetual racist ignorance.
Former Obama Vice President & Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden has called for the arrest of the two killers. So far this case though widely reported in blogs and on social media, has certainly not garnered the attention it deserves nationally.
Mike Beckles is a former Jamaican police Detective corporal, businessman, researcher, and blogger.
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