Posted on 04/09/2015 4:35:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
State law-enforcement authorities in South Carolina have filed murder charges against Michael Slager, the North Charleston police officer who killed 50-year-old Walter Scott by shooting him several times, mostly in the back as Scott was fleeing. Slager is currently being held without bail, has been fired by the police department, and faces a potential death sentence, or a term of 30 years to life in prison, if convicted.
That, moreover, is just on a murder charge. There appears to be considerable evidence that Slager also obstructed justice. Officials are investigating whether he moved his Taser from the scene of an initial scuffle with Scott to the scene several yards away where Scott lay dying — an apparent effort to plant corroboration for his false radio report that Scott had seized his Taser during the scuffle.
It has been reported that the Justice Department has also launched a civil-rights investigation. That is poor judgment.
As I’ve previously argued in connection with other cases involving fatal confrontations between police and black people, the mere fact that a police officer is white and the victim is black is not a basis for commencing a civil-rights investigation. To open an investigation on that thin reed is racial profiling – exactly what the Justice Department claims to oppose and what the civil-rights laws forbid.
Regrettably, we’ve become inured to this impropriety. In the Ferguson case, for example, even some normally sensible people opined that it was sensible for the Justice Department to jump into state cases that have “racial overtones” — even in the absence of actual evidence of racial animus. They rationalized that it served the greater good to assure the affected community that a serious, credible investigation was underway. This is misguided.
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Of course the DOJ does not want better community relations. They want turmoil, protests, demonstrations, and a little rioting wouldn’t hurt. They want to investigate the local government and police department, radically transform the force, impose Federal solutions and oversight, and assure another step toward a national police loyal to Washington, DC. If this had been a black on white crime, they this story would have already been buried and ignored.
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Amazing to watch them try to spin a story from this. A white guy shot a black guy in the back and killed him. The white guy is in custody and charged with murder, possible death penalty. This is exactly how the justice system should work.
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Media everywhere talks about the “white” police officer killing the “unarmed black” man. Try getting them to mention race when the races are reversed or when its the far more common black on black murders. Has anyone every heard the media say, “a black man killed an unarmed white man today,” yet it happens nearly every day somewhere in America. I would have a lot more sympathy for the most recent black victim if there was a uniform response to all murders and not the volcano of indignation every time a white kills a black and stone cold silence when it happens the other way around.
I am amazed by the quick Investigation and incarceration. This is exactly how situations like this should be handled. The family of the victim will see this in court. The shooter will face a jury. The police chief and mayor performed admirably.
“It has been reported that the Justice Department has also launched a civil-rights investigation.”
Eric “The Red” Holder best be careful in South Carolina, because the state has an anti-Klan law. It’s used to arrest and convict agitators who stir up racial riots in the state. Blacks have been charged under the anti-Klan law, and it drives the black agitators bat-chit crazy when their community activists are sent to prison under the anti-Klan laws.
The author is naive. Obama wants race wars.
Because Black Lives Matter (TM)...in those rare instances when they’re shot by a rogue white policeman. As opposed to those everyday instances when they shoot one another, then they don’t seem to matter nearly so much to Obama’s justice department or the Al Sharptons out there.
For every one case like this (assuming that the video is the whole story and the media narrative is correct, which is always doubtful), there are about a hundred cases of armed blacks killing or maiming unarmed whites, and probably a thousand cases of black on black violent crime. The fact that we get this selective racial cherry-picking when it comes to reporting these stories tells us that it isn't the fact that a violent crime that has been committed that gets the usual suspects worked up. Rather, it's the ability to score political points that counts.
Absolutely.
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