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Showing Original Post only (View all)What I Did After Police Killed My Son [View all]
After police in Kenosha, Wis., shot my 21-year-old son to death outside his house ten years ago and then immediately cleared themselves of all wrongdoing an African-American man approached me and said: If they can shoot a white boy like a dog, imagine what weve been going through.
I could imagine it all too easily, just as the rest of the country has been seeing it all too clearly in the terrible images coming from Ferguson, Mo., in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown. On Friday, after a week of angry protests, the police in Ferguson finally identified the officer implicated in Brown's shooting, although the circumstances still remain unclear.
I have known the name of the policeman who killed my son, Michael, for ten years. And he is still working on the force in Kenosha.
Yes, there is good reason to think that many of these unjustifiable homicides by police across the country are racially motivated. But there is a lot more than that going on here. Our country is simply not paying enough attention to the terrible lack of accountability of police departments and the way it affects all of usregardless of race or ethnicity. Because if a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy that was my son, Michael can be shot in the head under a street light with his hands cuffed behind his back, in front of five eyewitnesses (including his mother and sister), and his father was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew in three wars for his country thats me and I still couldnt get anything done about it, then Joe the plumber and Javier the roofer arent going to be able to do anything about it either.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/what-i-did-after-police-killed-my-son-110038.html
I could imagine it all too easily, just as the rest of the country has been seeing it all too clearly in the terrible images coming from Ferguson, Mo., in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown. On Friday, after a week of angry protests, the police in Ferguson finally identified the officer implicated in Brown's shooting, although the circumstances still remain unclear.
I have known the name of the policeman who killed my son, Michael, for ten years. And he is still working on the force in Kenosha.
Yes, there is good reason to think that many of these unjustifiable homicides by police across the country are racially motivated. But there is a lot more than that going on here. Our country is simply not paying enough attention to the terrible lack of accountability of police departments and the way it affects all of usregardless of race or ethnicity. Because if a blond-haired, blue-eyed boy that was my son, Michael can be shot in the head under a street light with his hands cuffed behind his back, in front of five eyewitnesses (including his mother and sister), and his father was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who flew in three wars for his country thats me and I still couldnt get anything done about it, then Joe the plumber and Javier the roofer arent going to be able to do anything about it either.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/what-i-did-after-police-killed-my-son-110038.html
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Certainly they are genuine and serious problems which a civilized society needs to address
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#18
Yes, a police state is being constructed around us. And yes, it's used to further political goals
woo me with science
Dec 2014
#28
Ah, this goes hand in hand with sexism = women's fault / what we want or deserve....
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#39
That was like the Death Star of posts! Blasting away at the bullshit with an unimaginable magnitude
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#49
more here ...yea that's right ...I saved this stuff ...I think it was one of your posts.
L0oniX
Mar 2015
#60
the same people will tell you sexism is not an issue because we're not Saudi Arabia, LOL.
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#38
no need for hyperbole, when so many women have no access to reproductive choice, but thanks
bettyellen
Dec 2014
#56
Very few of us are legal experts in here, except for those with law degrees, but we all
world wide wally
Dec 2014
#5
I think it is of value to recognize that black men are the majority of the people target because
jwirr
Dec 2014
#9
Our Government has placed the police above the law. That is what we have learned
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#11
"IF they do this to one person they can do this to any one of us" gets blank stares
mulsh
Dec 2014
#19
Yes, conservatives as a matter of course just make shit up and distort what isn't whole cloth.
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#50
A man who went into the wrong house after a night of drinking was killed by a cop
undeterred
Dec 2014
#46