How To Kill A Thousand Black Men And Get Away With It
The killing of 50 year-old Walter Scott by North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager, caught on video by a heroic citizen named Feidin Santana, has become the deservedly hot topic this week, evoking near universal (but not quite unanimous) horror at the brutality and impunity of the killing. There have also been qualified expressions of joy at the fact that the officer who shot Walter Scott eight times as he fled was charged at all, thanks almost entirely to the fact that the incident was caught on video. This is no small thing, given the filmed killings of people like John Crawford, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice that went unpunished.
But there is also despair at the unknowable number of police killings, past and future, that followed this same blueprint in the absence of video evidence. What Feidin Santana captured with his cellphone camera wasn’t just the killing of one black man, it was an instructional video on how to kill a thousand black men and get away with it. Maybe a thousand and one, maybe more.
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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tracey marie April 9th, 2015 at 12:10
This is the beginning of the peoples patrol, keep your phones close and make sure you know how to video.
FatRat April 9th, 2015 at 13:21
Not enough. Cops know how to erase the video off your phone. They can also take your phone into evidence and it can get lost. (wink wink) I’ve heard there are apps that record audio and video that can’t be easily tampered with and store the images on the cloud. Apps like those are desperately needed.
whatthe46 April 9th, 2015 at 13:31
i have an ideal app for that, i just don’t know how to go about implementing it.
jybarz April 9th, 2015 at 12:33
Yes, it’s like the only way to win a boxing bout has to be by a knock out.
Or the only way to score in basketball is by a slam dunk.
Yes, it has to be a viagra hard evidence to put these murdering pigs in jail.
Sorry about the tens or maybe hundreds or thousands of black men and boys murdered by these pigs because there were no knock out nor slam dunk nor viagra hard evidence to send them to jail.
whatthe46 April 9th, 2015 at 13:30
well, unfortunately there have been, and the evidence (in video form as well) were all ignored.
illinoisboy1977 April 9th, 2015 at 13:08
The problem with officers’ lethal force training, is that they don’t seem to be required to take an ethics refresher once they graduate the academy. They refresh and train their aim and their shooting reflexes, but I think they should be required to complete so many classroom hours, per year, on nothing but the ethics of employing force. Up to, and including, deadly force.
whatthe46 April 9th, 2015 at 13:29
the sad part about your post is that it should be required. if you have to take an ethics class as a civil servant who has to deal with the public on a daily basis, then this probably isn’t the job for you.