odinsblog:POLICE SHOOT AN UNARMED BLACK MAN IN THE BACK AS HE IS RUNNING AWAY, SHOOTING CALLED “JUST
odinsblog:POLICE SHOOT AN UNARMED BLACK MAN IN THE BACK AS HE IS RUNNING AWAY, SHOOTING CALLED “JUSTIFIED”PATRICK HARMON was shot three times in the back….over a traffic stop for an alleged bicycle “infraction.”This was another case of police racially profiling a black person (driving while black is risky enough, but in most cities, black people riding bicycles are also stopped more than anyone else). Officer Fox said Harmon lunged at him, but bodycam video proves officer Fox was lying. Fox clearly was not in imminent danger, but he said that “it was the scariest moment of his life,” and he used the magic words every police officer knows by rote: “I feared for my life”…from an innocent and unarmed black man who was running AWAY from him. (video)Unsurprisingly, Patrick Harmon’s murder has already been ruled “justifiable” by Salt Lake County’s District Attorney Sim Gill. And as usual, we’ve already heard far more about Patrick Harmon’s “criminal past” than we have about his lifelong struggle with mental illness.I literally do not take the police at their word for anything, but even IF Patrick Harmon really did have a small pocket knife on him, Utah is an open carry state, and it’s not illegal to have a pocket knife or a gun in public. And what good are bodycams when District Attorneys and the criminal “justice” system just keeps on ignoring the evidence whenever the victims are black?In America, if you’re white and you stab two people and then eat someone’s face, there’s a high probability that the police will take you in alive. And if you’re white and murder 9 black churchgoers in Charleston, the police might even take you to Burger King before they take you in alive. And when a white man guns down more than 58 people in Las Vegas, it’s the white mass murderer who is instantly humanized and called mentally ill. But when an innocent black person is executed by the police, it’s the black victim who is immediately criminalized and blamed for their own murder. That’s two Americas af.This is just one more example, in hundreds of years worth of examples, of why Colin Kaepernick and others take a knee instead of standing for the national anthem. Police brutality and their constant over-policing in our communities, and systematic racism that targets black people, is why Black Lives Matter protests are still needed.We. Demand. Justice. -- source link