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They blocked traffic on freeway right after the incident and immediately (without any investigation or info) demanded the police officer's resignation, etc.

According to the son, Miller walked over to the truck and ordered them to move. Miller, who is white, fired three shots, killing the elder Thomas. The son and his girlfriend say the shooting was unprovoked, but the Sheriff's Office said Thomas pointed a pistol at Miller.

Thanks for the link. The "community leaders" are insisting that the white officer failed to comply with the letter of a guideline that they maintain forbids him from intervening in any but a life-or-death situation while off-duty. Now, I haven't seen the Seattle P.D. Patrol Guide, but not only is this notion ludicrous on the face of it -- in most neighborhoods, white or black, residents would LOOK TO a neighbor who is a cop to deal with conflicts -- but black leaders across the country have embraced the notion of "community policing," which rejects the sort of legalistic distinctions these "community leaders" are insisting on. And as you noted, their notion of legalities is hopelessly one-sided, since it doesn't include due process for the officer they are accusing.

But there's yet another angle. I wasn't familair with the case in question, but I was familiar with most of the "community leaders." These are the same characters, who demanded that the Seattle media NOT REPORT on the racist black thugs who were singling out whites to rob, stomp, and murder the previous year during Mardi Gras. Putting their pro-black-criminal position together with this case, it becomes apparent to me that these people are black supremacists who do whatever they can on behalf of black felons, and against white policemen.

And to think, this is Seattle, not Cincinnati we're talking about!

One of the many awful consequences of this incident, is that photographs of Seattle's black community leaders could be used as recruiting posters for white supremacists. Indeed, last year following Mardi Gras, white supremacists had a field day on newspaper web forums all over the country (I stumbled onto a few.)

Agreed. You know, M - I find there to be an axiom at work here that nobody seems to want to admit to. That is, that racism and race problems seem to be their worst in the most liberal havens of the country. Notice how these things seem to occur in the blue zones and hardly ever in the red zones? Can we draw a straight line? Yes, I think liberalism leads to minority appeasement which ticks off whites who feel snookered which ticks off minorities for feeling lesser such that they need appeasement and the whole filthy cycle continues.

I guess what I'm saying is that liberals and liberalism perpetuate racial unrest.

Thanks for the ping, mrustow. Good article...and so sad. There used to be Christian community leaders in the inner cities. Now, black youths are being taught to hate based on lies and envy, most definitely not based on truth or God.

There are some good groups out there stressing the importance of fathers and personal accountability in the inner cities....their stories don't sell papers (or hurt Republicans) like a riot or accusations of racism by Mr. Bond, Mfume or Jackson...but they're quietly making a difference.