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As it happens, I presaged this Department of Justice (DOJ) decision. This, despite that heartrending video of a white cop, Daniel Pantaleo, choking these infamous last words out of a black man, Eric Garner: I can’t breathe. Here in part is what I wrote in “DOJ: No Charges Warranted in Zimmerman Case,” February 25, 2015:… Read more.
The menace of police officers killing (unarmed) black men has become a tragic feature of American life. Unfortunately, the way black activists react to these killings not only compounds but actually reinforces this feature. Notably, they rush to make martyrs of these dead black men. This perverse ritual invariably has them holding street protests —… Read more.
If you’re a black man, you are three times more likely to be killed by police than a white man, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health. … There’s not a single place in the U.S. where the risk of a black man getting killed by police is less than double that of a white… Read more.
Frankly, I’ve been preaching about the spectre of (white) police killing black men so much that I’m beginning to feel like John the Baptist. Except that I fear there will never be a Jesus-like messenger to make my message more palatable. My ‘golden rule’ is that black men would survive 99 percent of these encounters… Read more.
Tensions have resurfaced this week in the wake of another round of black men being shot by police. The shootings of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have served only to fuel the simmering unrest seen nationwide since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.… Read more.
