The Ironic Twist In The Killing Of Jonathan Price…

It is exact­ly because of Jonathan’s Price’s stance on police vio­lence, that many peo­ple find his killing iron­ic. Members of his fam­i­ly are under­stand­ably upset at some of the com­ments from some Black peo­ple who are not bit­ing their tongues in call­ing out Price’s com­ments, albeit despite his demise.
The con­ver­sa­tion around Price’s death with all due respect, is larg­er than the anger his fam­i­ly mem­bers feel about social media com­ments. Truth be told he was not hes­i­tant about sav­aging them in a pub­lic forum either/​.…. so there is that.
Price’s death goes to the larg­er issue of how white police see every sit­u­a­tion in black and white and how it dan­ger­ous­ly expos­es lit­er­al­ly every Black per­son to vio­lence and death at the hands of state agents paid and sup­port­ed by their tax dollars.

The shock­ing thing is that the polit­i­cal right, led by Donald Trump, has con­tin­ued to gaslight this issue forc­ing Democrats to play defense on a sub­ject that ought to anger and incense all peo­ple regard­less of color.
The idea of sup­port­ing good Law enforce­ment and rad­i­cal­ly denounc­ing dirty racist cops who are vest­ed with the pow­er fo life and death, who bru­tal­ize and mur­der based on igno­rant bias­es is not a bina­ry choice.
The prob­lem for Politicians on both the polit­i­cal right and left is that they are all bought and paid for with mon­ey from police unions.
Because they are bought and paid for aggriev­ed par­ties can expect no response from their polit­i­cal lead­ers. If they take the union sup­port they are behold­en, if they refuse it, they are demo­nized as anti-law enforce­ment by the Unions.
It is a type of Mafioso vice grip in which police have held elect­ed offi­cials, most of whom lack the balls to break free from their law­less clutches.

According to a just-released report: Jonathan Price asked the cop if he was “doing good,” and apol­o­gized for the bro­ken glass around him, accord­ing to a prob­a­ble cause affidavit.
Trying to be friend­ly, try­ing to be that non-threat­en­ing Black man, try­ing to be treat­ed as a human being should by sur­ren­der­ing his dig­ni­ty on the altar of acceptance.
It did not help him!
In the moments before Jonathan Price was gunned down by a small-town police offi­cer out­side a Texas gas sta­tion, he extend­ed his arm for a hand­shake, accord­ing to court records. He asked the cop if he was “doing good.” He apol­o­gized for the bro­ken glass around him. Once Lucas arrived at the scene, Price, 31, approached to ask how the offi­cer was doing, accord­ing to the affi­davit, which relied on body-cam­era footage, phys­i­cal evi­dence, and eye­wit­ness tes­ti­mo­ny of the incident.
“Price came very close to Officer Lucas ask­ing ‘you doing good’ mul­ti­ple times while extend­ing his hand in a hand­shake ges­ture,” the prob­a­ble cause affi­davit said. “Price apol­o­gized for bro­ken glass on the ground and stat­ed some­one had ‘tried to wrap me up.’”
Moments lat­er Jonathan Price was tased and shot four times, it was the end of a man who went out of his way to praise the police.

Robert Rogers the attor­ney who rep­re­sent­ed Amber Guyger the cop who mur­dered Botham Shem Jean has been retained by Lucas.
Robert Lucas was quick to do what they always do.
“After Mr. Price refused repeat­ed instruc­tions and phys­i­cal­ly resist­ed, Officer Lucas deployed his Taser and con­tin­ued to give Mr. Price instruc­tions. Mr. Price resist­ed the effects of the Taser and attempt­ed to take it away from Officer Lucas,” “Officer Lucas only dis­charged his weapon in accor­dance with Texas law when he was con­front­ed with an aggres­sive assailant who was attempt­ing to take his Taser.”

Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, he is a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
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