They say a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Once again, we have a case where cops shoot a black kid – literally a 12 year old kid, with a toy gun no more convincing than the Edison Giocattoli cap guns I used to run around the neighborhood with, or the arsenal of matte-black waterguns I once lugged through an airport – and the district attorney doesn’t even find enough awry to make it worth going to trial. Never mind conviction; the DA couldn’t or wouldn’t find enough in this situation to give it a day in court.
We have a crisis in law enforcement in this country, and it is this: the kind of arbitrary government tyranny that fat old white ammosexuals claim to be afraid of is real, only it applies to black people. People who scream and rave about the incipient tyranny of Obama and the jackbooted heel of the ATF suddenly have every excuse in the world for a cop that pulls the trigger on an unarmed black person.
Never ask why black folk are angry. Ask why they aren’t angrier. Actually, look at what Trump voters want to do in response to the slightest threat to the primacy of whites, and ask yourself why black people haven’t done even more to fight back what is increasingly obviously a stacked deck. And then ask if things are getting worse, or if they’ve been like this all along…and you just haven’t noticed it.