“...how different things might be if an African-American police officer had shot and killed an unarmed white teenager.”
Press, government, and public reaction: yawn....
We need to riot and demand justice for Brian Claunch. Never heard of him? He is the man with one leg and one arm who was murdered sitting in a wheel chair in a rest home for the mentally disabled in Texas two years ago. He was creating a disturbance of some sort and some idiot called the police. Two officers came and Mr. Claunch, in his wheelchair with one arm and one leg, was shot in the head and killed by one officer who said that Mr. Claunch had trapped his partner in a corner of the room “where he could not escape” and “refused to show his hands” of which he only had one so the officer killed Mr. Claunch to protect his partner from what Mr. Claunch had in his hand A BALL POINT PEN. Go to this link http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/29/brian-claunch-shooting-houston-police and see if you can determine why this brutal police murder did not receive one one hundredth of the reaction that the death of Big Mike Brown has caused. Look closely, you will see it, it’s right there in black and white. If one tiny detail about Mr. Claunch had been different there would have been riots all over America and you would have heard about it every day for the past two years and still be hearing about it. Texas would have been overrun by carpetbaggers named Obama, Holder, etc. This is a case that would have been a dream come true for the rabble rousers but one tiny detail made his story useless to them. Worse than useless, they would prefer that no one ever heard of it.