Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
A 22-year-old Black man was shot by White police officers. “Community activists” in Minneapolis point out similarities to Trayvon.
Black, White, gun. Yep, sounds the same. News reports say Minneapolis police shot him with Heckler and Koch MP5’s, full-auto 9mm submachine guns. Same thing you’d see a German cop carrying. Here’s a sample photo from another law enforcement agency:
Police dog, submachine gun, car chase . . . yep, just exactly like Trayvon. No further analysis needed. Clear case of Black child killed by gun violence. So how do we prevent this tragedy from happening again?
Universal background checks. Mayors Against Illegal Guns were in town Wednesday to read off the names of people killed by gun violence. The sister of the school principal who died in Newtown spoke. A relative of someone who died at Accent Signage spoke. Sensible, reasonable, background checks for all firearms transfers, that’s all it would have taken to prevent every single one of those deaths.
It does strike me as odd that the Minneapolis Police Department doesn’t do background checks on its own officers every time they check a fully-automatic assault weapon out of the firearms locker to go shoot some Black children but no doubt that’s due to Bush tax cuts or the Koch Brothers war on women. We could pay for all background checks by taxing the rich. And we should. For the 22-year-old Children.
Joe Doakes
To the hard left, facts are whatever they say they are.
Similar to Trayvon in that dead man dressed in street punk attire and made the fatal error of resisting superior force and was shot dead for his mistake.
Do these sources ever attempt to utilize Minnesota’s data privacy act to obtain the actual police reports from these incidents? Unless a person is part of the “all police always lie all the time” crowd, this eventually obtainable data will contain all the facts that the department and its investigators have on the incident and brought to court.
However, it seems that most of the rhetoric and hateful diatribes are spewed before this information is able to be made public. This will be particularly interesting in the Martin/ Zimmerman situation if anyone will still be interested when it can be released; kind of like the page 28 newspaper retraction. I am also aware that this is a two-edged sword. Bad behaviors reflected in a poorly composed report can rightfully help sink an officer deserving it.
The mentioned MPLS incident might be best explained by all the documented facts.