In the wake of the latest police shootings of unarmed black men, is it any wonder this would happen?
In prior shootings, as a final insult, it was the victims whose characters were dissected and assassinated in the media, leaving police conduct (the real issue) off the table. Police officers have by and large gone unpunished. People protesting peacefully were derided and deligitimised without mercy. Guns were assiduously flooded into the market courtesy of a determined NRA, which could only make the police jumpier with each passing day. The police duly became more militarised. With mandatory minimum sentence guidelines, more and more people have been swept into a nightmarish culture of mass incarceration and criminalisation.
And then they sent Tamir Rice's family the bill for his last ambulance ride.
Is it any wonder?
It's disgusting that I have to be grateful that my sons are not young black men.
In prior shootings, as a final insult, it was the victims whose characters were dissected and assassinated in the media, leaving police conduct (the real issue) off the table. Police officers have by and large gone unpunished. People protesting peacefully were derided and deligitimised without mercy. Guns were assiduously flooded into the market courtesy of a determined NRA, which could only make the police jumpier with each passing day. The police duly became more militarised. With mandatory minimum sentence guidelines, more and more people have been swept into a nightmarish culture of mass incarceration and criminalisation.
And then they sent Tamir Rice's family the bill for his last ambulance ride.
Is it any wonder?
It's disgusting that I have to be grateful that my sons are not young black men.
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