I as I always do, I examined my own bias and my sense of purpose.

I began to think are there components of the black alertness that is actually an illness in our society in general. There was reason to believe otherwise, especially, when unarmed Caucasian men were being gunned down, too.



December 2, 2013
By Liz Fields

Kansas City authorities (click here) are trying to piece together what happened when an early morning confrontation left a groom celebrating his wedding shot dead and the officer who shot him hospitalized with face injuries.

Anthony V. Bruno, 26, a six year veteran of the Kansas City Fire Department, was killed after he left his wedding reception in the early hours of Sunday morning. A family member said the incident may have been sparked by a dispute over a cab fare.

Kansas City police said in a statement that at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, an unidentified off-duty police officer responded to a call that a cab driver had been assaulted in front of a hotel near 12th and Wyandotte.

The officer, a 17 year veteran of the police department, was working in uniform and in a law enforcement capacity for a downtown business at the time of the incident. He found the suspect, Bruno, a couple of blocks away where the pair got into a fight, the police statement said....