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White Silence On Police Violence Against Blacks Equals Acquiescence…

This is the only image we could source of the alleged Highland Park, Illinois shoot­er who killed sev­er­al inno­cent peo­ple yes­ter­day and wound­ed sev­er­al more.

Major News orga­ni­za­tions have so far not pro­duced an image of the shoot­er; addi­tion­al­ly, it is a habit of news net­works and cable chan­nels not to dis­play the images of white mass mur­der­ers under the guise that doing so is what they crave.
I guess there is some truth to that, but why is it that the same isn’t true of black crim­i­nals who have their images plas­tered across tele­vi­sion screens for far less seri­ous transgressions?

Another WHITE male TERRORIST cow­ard­ly and indis­crim­i­nate­ly kills mul­ti­ple inno­cent peo­ple just liv­ing their lives; he was tak­en into cus­tody with no HARM done to him.
A young BLACK man run­ning away from police had over (90) NINETY bul­lets fired at him by POLICE; over 60 BULLETS struck his body, killing him instantly.
And so I ask again, why are police always able to take WHITE mass mur­der­ers into cus­tody with­out harm­ing them but are always unable to take unarmed BLACK offend­ers into cus­tody with­out assas­si­nat­ing them?
Will we con­tin­ue to turn a blind eye to these atroc­i­ties and allow police offi­cials and their racist polit­i­cal enablers to con­di­tion us into believ­ing that it is okay?
Under no cir­cum­stances should we remain silent while police bla­tant­ly and cal­lous­ly mur­der peo­ple to keep us safe.
I under­stand that the American police were not cre­at­ed to care about Black life. So my state­ment is not nec­es­sar­i­ly direct­ed at my Black broth­ers and sis­ters but at white peo­ple who are the sup­posed ben­e­fi­cia­ries of this pro­tec­tion that the police provide.
The WHITE MASS MURDERER Robert E. Crimo III was tak­en into cus­tody after a car chase.
This after he had mur­dered and injured many.
He was not assas­si­nat­ed on the spot.
To those of you who keep mak­ing excus­es for these atroc­i­ties, I leave you with the words of Martin Niemoller:

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