Posted on 08/13/2014 4:42:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After learning that Los Angeles police shot and killed Ezell Ford Monday night, I spent a good deal of time Tuesday night and Wednesday morning trying to find out if the victim was unarmed.
Ford was a 25-year-old black man (pictured above) who had reportedly suffered from mental illness. The official police statement online never mentioned if Ford had a weapon when he was killed. Although several media organizations reported he was unarmed, I could find no evidence from LAPD or the family to corroborate that claim.
I wanted to determine if Ford should be added to the tragic list of unarmed African Americans who had been killed recently from Michael Brown to Renisha McBride, from Trayvon Martin to Jordan Davis, and from Oscar Grant to Eric Garner. Some were killed by police. Some were killed by private citizens. All were unarmed.
Then it hit me. Suddenly I realized it didn't matter if he had a gun. In the eyes of America, he had something more dangerous than a gun: his black skin. Yes, Ezell Ford was suspicious, in part, because he was black. That's why unarmed black people continue to be killed.
Look online and you'll find pictures of white people proudly carrying guns into churches, bars, and grocery stores thanks to the "open carry" laws passed in nearly every state recently. Black people don't have that right.
When a white teenager named Steve Lohner was stopped by the police last month and refused to show his ID after carrying a loaded shotgun on the streets of Aurora, Colorado (the same city where a mass murderer killed 12 people and injured 70 others in a packed movie theater in July 2012), the teen walked away with nothing but a citation.....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
No.
Once again, democrats are the ones who have a long history of doing whatever they could to keep guns out of the hands of blacks.
“”Black people don’t have that right.””
Says who?
Says New Jersey.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/08/10/ray-rice-shaneen-allen-gun-column/13862831/
Huffers lie.
Absolutely not! They have every right to defend themselves, same as me.
Someone should tell Keith that if you can name the blacks shot by cops, from memory, there aren’t that many.
Hey, they stole my line about free speech applying only to liberals and the law applying only to us! If they used it in the context of what I have been saying I’d be fine, but....
I should sue!
It was a Union government employee who shot the kid.
Huffers will demand more of them.
Gun controls were instituted in this country to prevent blacks from arming themselves to protect themselves from the likes of the Ku Klux Klan.
Anyone remember that nice black guy with the AR-15 on his back at an open-carry event?
This right after GayMuzzie’s first immaculation and the media kept reporting like he’d been white.
Dred Scott vs Sanford.
What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.
Black Americans can be allies on 2nd Amendment issues and should not be dismissed in that scope of struggle.
Detroit is one heavily armed city with a police chief who strongly supports self defense and the plummeting crime rate seems to indicate that its the right way to go.
The people seem to love the police now as well.
Hysteria.
And to think they called Sen. McCarthy a loon.
No, nor should it, you racist Commies.
That being said, I don’t think the Second Amendment should apply to registered Democrats. Look at who has caused every offensive shooting in the country, almost 100% of those were done by Democrats. The remainder was caused by other radical Leftist groups.
How do people live with being deliberately stupid? Do they not have any pride in their ability to think?
A former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, Boykin was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Countryside High School in Clearwater, Florida, before graduating from Dartmouth College.
After leaving Dartmouth in 1987, Boykin spent a year and a half working for Michael Dukakis’ presidential campaign and then entered Harvard Law School, where he was a leader in the campus diversity movement and general editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He received his J.D. from Harvard in 1992 and then joined the Clinton/Gore Campaign in Little Rock, Arkansas. After Clinton’s election, Boykin became a Special Assistant to the President and Director of Specialty Media. Once the highest-ranking openly gay person in the Clinton White House, Boykin helped organize and participated in the nation’s first meeting between gay and lesbian leaders and a U.S. President.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Boykin
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