If it's anything like the McDonald murder, then this video will show a now-deceased teenager that had (until just recently,) been blamed by police and media for his own death instead be revealed to be what statistically is likely the case: He was targeted, victimized, and killed because he came across the wrong cop at the wrong time, and the officer was too liberal in his use of force, to a lethal degree.
Death is dealt out all too readily and frequently by uniformed "peace keepers" in the United States. Estimates are at least 1k deaths, likely more, just in 2015 alone, while not a single police officer was convicted of wrongfully killing a suspect. Statistically, it's hard to believe that a single profession can be THAT good at their jobs, that they're only murdering the "right people"; "the bad guys" of our modern age.
It seems Chicago will be a focal point of citizen/police relations in the United States in 2016. What occurs there; the beautiful, the tragic, the moments where communities rally together and the moments where old lines are revealed and tested.... these coming wet spring days and hot summer nights there will echo throughout the nation, whether it be in terms of law enforcement, teacher's rights, the future of education for the growing numbers of economically-disadvantaged families who swell our schools, or more. And there are brilliant minds amongst those masses who must navigate gangland-Chicago, now made all the more difficult with the closure of over 50 public schools during the reign of Rahm. There amongst these children could be the person who unravels the cures for Maleria, AIDS, cancers and viruses which have plagued man all our existence; the mind that rivals Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, or Bowie. The same kid whose footsteps that patter through those halls could one day leave a lasting impression upon a Martian landscape.
Brilliance does not shine solely upon the advantaged and the moneyed-minority who lord above that city, no. No, it radiates out from below those gilded board rooms and VIP box-seats, where a great many of us are watching events unfold. We see a city's police force struggling desperately to incinerate and eliminate evidence of their all-too-recent-past wrongdoings, while simultaneously this happens:
- "police unions argue that red-flagged officers should not be judged by their marred past." ( http://thefreethoughtproject.com/chicago-police-fight-destroy-misconduct-records-launch-homan-square-investigation/ )
We see a mayor who is rapidly beginning to lose the blind following of his constituents, and in the process of holding his hands up in a mock-surrender reveals how dirty his fingers really are. A mayor who withheld crucial evidence regarding the previously-mentioned McDonald murder because it would have hurt his ratings during a heated-reelection campaign. A mayor who, in all likelihood, has committed crimes no different than several other previous Chicago mayors have done, and it's this writer's personal hope that he soon shares living accommodations with them.
Perhaps if he's nice enough they'll let him have the bottom bunk in their cell.
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