That same day, the passenger in a car that went up the wrong driveway was shot dead in the car. The victim was white, and the shooter was *immediately* charged with a crime.
They have since charged the shooter in the Yarl attack, but it is pretty damned telling how the two cases were handled in a completely different manner.
For years it has been the case that all LEO had to declare was that they "felt" threatened, and they were given a free pass to murder black people with promiscuous abandon. There is an implicit denial of POC's humanity in all of this. The officer that killed Michael Brown in Ferguson justified himself before the grand jury saying that Brown "looked like a demon," blatantly dehumanizing the boy and justifying himself.
That same day, the passenger in a car that went up the wrong driveway was shot dead in the car. The victim was white, and the shooter was *immediately* charged with a crime.
They have since charged the shooter in the Yarl attack, but it is pretty damned telling how the two cases were handled in a completely different manner.
For years it has been the case that all LEO had to declare was that they "felt" threatened, and they were given a free pass to murder black people with promiscuous abandon. There is an implicit denial of POC's humanity in all of this. The officer that killed Michael Brown in Ferguson justified himself before the grand jury saying that Brown "looked like a demon," blatantly dehumanizing the boy and justifying himself.