Friday, December 26, 2014

Racial Divide: Injustice By Racial Vigilantes

Associated Press: More demonstrations in Berkeley, Missouri concerning the death of an 18-year-old black who pointed a gun at a police officer. The protests were more peaceful than the previous night, when a crowd gathered at a gas station, throwing rocks and bricks. The black community police force is mostly white.
Maybe that should change and one can see if the same civil unrest will occur when a black police officer defends himself. The problem of violence is not within the law enforcement community, but in the community for which they are sworn to serve and protect. 
The issues should be concerning as to how to reduce crime in black communities rather than make police officers targets of racial scapegoating. The St. Louis area has had three events where black youth have been killed during acts of violence.
Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin holds Obama, Holder, and Blasio for the path toward unjustifiable hatred. Sheriff Clarke was honored in 2013 with the Sheriff of the Year Award by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association and also has been a speaker at NRA functions.Here is a video from 8 months ago ...

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