Protestors in Salt Lake City say police are withholding evidence from the public in the shooting death of Dillon Taylor.
Source: www.cnn.com
Aunt says that when he reached to pull up his pants so that he could kneel down, then he was shot twice. Once in the chest and once in the stomach.
Here is a list of unarmed Blacks killed by police in the US. It is extremely incomplete. A complete list for just 2005 to 2012 would have at least 760 killings. I have only 6% of those. This list is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Source: abagond.wordpress.com
Bill O’Reilly brought Megyn Kelly on his Monday show to have a discussion about the concept of “white privilege.” He asked Kelly if she believed it was real.
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
O’Reilly says that culture is the issue.
The issue is the culture of the privileged classes oppressing people of color and the poor.
Both O’Reilly and Kelly never mention oppression, racism and poverty.
The Huffpost article talks about this being a conversation about ‘white privilege’, but then Kelly goes on to quote statistics caused by lack of wealth, opportunity, oppression and racism.
White privilege is about whites getting the benefit of the doubt while people of color are thought to be guilty at the slightest perceived possible misstep.
White privilege is not about opportunities through wealth. That would be called ‘wealth privilege’.
O’Reilly and Kelly need to go back to school.
They can start by reading Peggy McIntosh’s ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack’
A police shooting in Orlando, Florida, killed an innocent bystander, 22-year-old Maria Godinez.
Source: www.inquisitr.com
A 39-year-old shooting instructor accidentally shot by one of his 9-year-old students on Monday has died.
Source: www.8newsnow.com
Why do the parents think it’s a good idea to teach a 9 year old how to fire an Uzi?
Now this poor 9 year old girl has to live with the fact that she accidentally killed this man for the rest of her life.
The images out of Ferguson, Missouri, these past two weeks have been shocking: tear gas blanketing suburban streets, law enforcement creating a war zone and defiant protesters braving it all. But it is important to remember that what started Ferguson’s fight is far too common: the police killing of an unarmed black teen.
African-Americans are the primary targets of law-enforcement profiling and violence, as the killings of Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Jonathan Ferrell and Eric Garner all attest. But during this past week, Latino, Asian-American, Arab-American and Muslim organizations have all released statements of solidarity informed by similar experiences with discriminatory law enforcement practices, as well as an urgency to collectively identify and implement solutions.
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Source: www.thenation.com
“When a police officer kills someone while trying to stop a crime or make an arrest, government agencies classify the death as a legal intervention. The death of Mike Brown, the 18-year-old and unarmed teenager killed by a police officer earlier this month in Ferguson, Missouri will likely be classified under this term when it comes time to report the circumstances of his death to the national databases that track such information.”
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Source: sunlightfoundation.com
The KBI and Franklin County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a deadly officer-involved shooting in Ottawa.
Source: www.kshb.com
James Baldwin once said that “America is one tough town.” Those words came back to me as I thought of what is going on these past few weeks in Ferguson, Missouri. So much of the focus has been on the issue of a white police officer killing a young black man, Michael Brown, but almost nothing is said about the environment that creates these types of scenarios that are becoming all too familiar in describing the state of racial relations in the United States, particularly how they negatively impact African Americans. Often, when the issue of a racial divide arises or is even intimated, denial and shock quickly fills the room, as was evidenced in the past two days when an all white male Fox News panel showed disdain for Capt. Ron Johnson (who is Black) for sympathizing with the African American community over the killing of Michael Brown. Bo Dietl, immediately said, “We’re dividing black and white again. America has no color, it’s all one color.” So often times I have wondered…so, what is that ‘one color’ and what would it mean if we did see color?
Soon afterwards, the mayor of Ferguson declared that “There’s not a racial divide in Ferguson.” One of the great myths in this country is that if we say that ‘everything is fine’ loud and long enough, the problem will go away. This is perhaps because as someone once said, “When the truth becomes too hard to bear, we create another.”
So what kinds of environments, attitudes, and behaviors ‘create’ a racial divide? First of all, having an almost all white police force creates an ‘ethnic vacuum’ that shields the white officers from ever having to see outside their ‘white bubble’ or to get feedback on their actions and attitudes from someone who is non-white. Another is never interviewing officers prior to hire to see if they possess any racial prejudices towards any particular group of people and how that might heighten their perceptions and feelings of distrust and fearing for their safety. This may explain why so many blacks are shot repeatedly, sometimes over twenty times.
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Source: www.stirfryseminars.com
“…it seems every time there’s a questionable officer-involved shooting… a code of silence is enforced and the general public gets the message: “Yes, this was a tragedy. But it wasn’t personal. It was protocol.”
No admission of responsibility. No acknowledgment of how the situation could have been handled differently. And, certainly, no apology.
It’s a dead-end conversation. And the result is predictable: More public outrage, more distrust, more lawsuits.
It’s no doubt one reason why many Sonoma County residents were frustrated last week at the news that Deputy Erick Gelhaus, the officer responsible for the shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez was put back out on patrol. Yes, 10 months later, the community appears to be moving toward some significant changes, including putting cameras on deputy uniforms, improving oversight of officer-involved shootings and, possibly, creating a public park at the corner of Moorland and W. Robles avenues where the shooting occurred. But putting the deputy back on patrol was a harsh reminder that we’re no closer to having assurances that what happened on Oct. 22, 2013 won’t happen again.
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Source: www.pressdemocrat.com