Note
Friday, 11:00PM CST - Today's 'toon is
unavoidably delayed. I may have to post a classic.
Please stand by. Meanwhile, click on some ads, send
Bernie a few bucks or go bite Ted Cruz.
=Lefty=
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White
Knights
Dontre Hamilton,
Eric Garner, John Crawford, Michael Brown,
Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Akai Gurley,
Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Jerame Reid,
Tony Robinson, Philip White, Eric Harris,
Walter Scott, and Freddie Gray.
These are
the names of unarmed black males
who have been killed by police just in
the past year.
(As you might guess this is not an all-inclusive
list.) There have been protests against
these killings but in none of these incidents
has an officer been fired
or
indicted
as
a
result
of their
actions, even though in all of these cases
murder
was clearly not justified or necessary.
(I may be just a civilian but even I know
that killing a suspect isn't the first
and only option.)
Fast-forward to June 5, 2015. A young girl
is manhandled by a McKinney, Texas police
officer and the city loses its fucking
mind. Massive protests
result in the resignation of the officer
in question even though no one was so much
as bruised during the altercation.
I know this so unlike me but I'm going
to be blunt; There's a
huge double-standard at play here, one
that says the life of cute young women
somehow outweighs the
life of men and, in the case
of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, boys, too. If
officer Casebolt had tackled one of the
boys rather than the young lady this story
would have been a minor blip on page 37b
and forgotten by lunch. This is because
we know that men, especially black men,
are just no damn good...
even if they're President, according to
Fox News.
Let me go farther and say that officer
Casebolt might still be on the job, although
on vacation with pay, it he'd instead shot
and killed the young woman instead of tackling
her.
Such is the "stand your ground/feared for
my
life/get-out-of-jail-free"
bullshit the police get to flaunt in our
faces.
So what's the lesson here? I guess that
black men should wear bikinis when dealing
with
the police. Makes for bad optics if something
goes wrong.
=Lefty=
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