Sadly, it is becoming a weekly occurrence when we turn on the news to find another article about a police shooting of an unarmed suspect. The Police are part of our judicial system which is based on the premise that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but now we see that just getting to that court of law is not always easy.
I wrote about this in a blog post on February 15th titled “I Must Have Missed It.” In that post I was referring to the killing of an unarmed man in Pasco, Washington by three Police Officers, but I could just have easily been referring to Ferguson, Missouri or New York City or Cleveland, Ohio or a host of other places around the country. We don’t need detailed statistics to know that what has changed is not the Police killing of unarmed suspects, but rather the news reporting of the Police killing of unarmed suspects.
So I want to ask my questions again:
1. When did resisting arrest while unarmed become punishable by death?
2. When did the police get the authority to punish a law breaker before he is found guilty by a jury of his peers?
I must have missed it – did you miss it as well?
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