Melissa Harris-Perry poignant expose of police inhumanness toward black men

[egbertowillies]

Melissa Harris-Perry provides a representative list of unarmed black men gunned down by white police officers. She then puts the narrative in the context of the outcome of a long ago not forgotten Supreme Court case. The words are searing. Her delivery makes it that more poignant.

http://egbertowillies.com/2014/08/16/melissa-harris-perry-black-men-white-police/

[Little Star]

1. Read this article also.....

Local police involved in 400 killings per year

This reports show that 18% of the blacks killed during those seven years were under age 21, compared to 8.7% of whites. The victim in Ferguson was 18-year-old Michael Brown. Police have yet to identify the officer who shot him; witnesses have said the officer was white.

While the racial analysis is striking, the database it's based on has been long considered flawed and largely incomplete. The killings are self-reported by law enforcement and not all police departments participate so the database undercounts the actual number of deaths. Plus, the numbers are not audited after they are submitted to the FBI and the statistics on "justifiable" homicides have conflicted with independent measures of fatalities at the hands of police
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/14/police-killings-data/14060357/