micdotcom:1. On Saturday, Michael T. Slager, a white police officer from North Charleston, S.C., fir
micdotcom:1. On Saturday, Michael T. Slager, a white police officer from North Charleston, S.C., fired eight shots into the back of an unarmed black man named Walter Scott. The attack was caught on video. 2. This is a good thing, people say. But another black family may forever be haunted by the last few minutes of their loved one’s life cut short by none other than the “law” that was meant to protect him.3. On Tuesday, Slager was charged with murder.4. This is justice, people say. But legal charges and bloated prison cells can never make up for the loss of black lives. Death is not justice. Black people alive is.5. Since late last summer, we have marched, protested and sung under the banner #BlackLivesMatter, because some in this country still don’t believe they do. 6. This is progress, people say. But after all this time — and all these songs, and all these chants — we still have failed to convince everyone that while “All Lives Matter,” all lives are not disproportionately ended by police violence. Black lives are, so often that it’s hard to stomach all this evidence of black people being ridiculed, beaten, choked, tasered or shot by police as it surfaces, over and over again.7 - 17 addresses what’s going on in Ferguson right now, the DOJ and the frightening truth about how common this has become. -- source link
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