For those who may not have heard, a black teenager was killed by a cop on Friday night in Madison, WI.
Just 6 months after Ferguson. Exactly 50 years after Selma.
This is horrible, and I'm not sure what to say, apart that I'm outraged.
Outraged that it's always a white cop killing a black kid. And simply outraged that a trained cop would shoot a unarmed civilian. You just don't do that, this is very wrong. There are other ways to apprehend someone. And if you can't, you call for back-up. You just don't shoot them dead.
You can try to argue, nothing justifies killing an unarmed, untrained, petty offender.
This is unacceptable. This shouldn't happen.
Just 6 months after Ferguson. Exactly 50 years after Selma.
This is horrible, and I'm not sure what to say, apart that I'm outraged.
Outraged that it's always a white cop killing a black kid. And simply outraged that a trained cop would shoot a unarmed civilian. You just don't do that, this is very wrong. There are other ways to apprehend someone. And if you can't, you call for back-up. You just don't shoot them dead.
You can try to argue, nothing justifies killing an unarmed, untrained, petty offender.
This is unacceptable. This shouldn't happen.
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Date: 2015-03-09 05:03 pm (UTC)I don't know how everyone isn't so utterly exhausted of the same shit over and over because at some point we have to make it stop. It has to stop.
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Date: 2015-03-09 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-09 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-09 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-09 07:38 pm (UTC)This is just not right.
It doesn't matter that it was an accident or an error of judgement. Someone who didn't deserve it lost their lives. There should be consequences.
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Date: 2015-03-09 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-09 10:17 pm (UTC)