Why I grieve over the racially split hung jury in Madison cop trial (Opinion/al.com)

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By John Archibald | [e-mail]
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on September 17, 2015 at 6:30 AM, updated September 17, 2015 at 10:26 AM

Some days I want to scream and to cry, to invoke Rodney King and Patti Smith all at the same time.

"Can we all get along?"

And if not ...

"Where does it all lead? What will become of us?"

We are better than this, I tell myself. If we are not then everything I've ever believed about life and humanity and hope is nothing more than a fairy tale.

Last week a jury of Eric Parker's peers – two women who are black and 10 men who are not – failed to agree on whether that Madison police officer committed a crime when he slammed a 57-year-old Indian man to the ground on videotape that shocked the world.
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[marble falls]

1. Jeez. They were only extending the cops rights of white privelige, their hands were tied.