All Americans see from their living room's easy chair is a bunch of black people (probably most with rap sheets) making a fuss over police simply trying to their jobs.
RIGHT?
Just say yes, because I already now how insulated those passing judgement on people legitimately upset exist and are in their easy chair for a reason. THEY DON'T HAVE THESE PROBLEMS IN THEIR TOWNS.
Black men are being killed. IT MUST STOP!!!!!!
End of discussion.
January 4th, 2015
By Steven Elbow
Above photo: Dontre Hamilton’s mother, (click here) Maria Hamilton participates in a protest Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, in Milwaukee. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced earlier in the day that there would be no charges against former police office Christopher Manney in the fatal shooting of Dontre Hamilton. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
RIGHT?
Just say yes, because I already now how insulated those passing judgement on people legitimately upset exist and are in their easy chair for a reason. THEY DON'T HAVE THESE PROBLEMS IN THEIR TOWNS.
Black men are being killed. IT MUST STOP!!!!!!
End of discussion.
January 4th, 2015By Steven Elbow
Above photo: Dontre Hamilton’s mother, (click here) Maria Hamilton participates in a protest Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, in Milwaukee. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced earlier in the day that there would be no charges against former police office Christopher Manney in the fatal shooting of Dontre Hamilton. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Has Milwaukee out-Fergusoned Ferguson?
Writing in Slate, Michael Carriere argues that the real story isn’t that former Milwaukee police officer Christopher Manney won’t face charges in the April 2014 shooting death of Dontre Hamilton. It’s the Milwaukee Police Department’s decades-long history of brutality against African Americans.
And, Carriere writes, the Hamilton case might very well expose a police culture that is more egregious than the one that led to national protests over the Aug. 9 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
“While the Hamilton case has not received as much media attention as the Michael Brown shooting, it may very well out-Ferguson Ferguson,” Carriere writes.
Hamilton’s case is only the latest in a string of incidents of Milwaukee Police Department brutality against African Americans stretching back decades, he writes....
