Whether justified or not, every time a white cop kills a black
man, the BLM rabble and white liberals would have you think racism was
behind the killing
By Howie Katz
Big Jolly Times
June 2, 2020
The
death of Houston native George Floyd by the knee of a Minneapolis cop
has left the US with what can best be described as an insurrection.
What started out as a peaceful protest in Minneapolis morphed into
assaults against the police, the burning of businesses and police cars,
and widespread looting in more than 40 cities from coast to coast and
from north to south.
Black Lives Matter and white
liberals would have you think racism was behind the killing of Floyd as
they do just about every time a white cop shoots dead a white man.
Whenever
an unarmed black man is killed by the police, the hue and cry goes up
that he was killed because he was black. Here are some of the most
notable cases.
In August 2014, NY cops tried to arrest
Eric Garner, a 400-pound giant. During a struggle when he resisted
arrest, officer Daniel Pantaleo applied what appeared to be a choke hold
while Garner uttered the now famous words: "I can't breathe." Pantaleo
was never charged by the DA or the Feds, but he was unjustly fired and
stripped of his pension in August 2019 at the insistence of
Sandinista-loving Mayor Bill de Blasio.
In August
2014, Michael Brown Jr., who had committed a strongarm robbery at a
convenience store a short while earlier, was shot dead by Ferguson,
Missouri police officer Darren Wilson as he tried to defend himself from
a physical assault by the 300-pound giant.
In October 2014, Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot dead Laquan McDonald as he was walking away from the police. This was clearly an unjustified shooting and Van Dyke was convicted of 2nd-degree murder and several counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.
In
November 2014, Tamir Rice, a 12-year old boy, was shot and killed by
Cleveland police after officers mistook his toy gun for a real weapon.
In April 2015, Walter Scott was shot in the back while running away from North Charleston, South Carolina officer Michael Slager after a traffic stop for a broken taillight. This was clearly an unjustified shooting and Slager was deservedly charged with murder.
Also
in April 2025, Freddie Gray died of a spinal cord injury a week after
he was tossed into the back of a Baltimore police van. The officer
driving the van was charged with 2nd-degree "depraved-heart" murder and
five other Baltimore cops were charged with various crimes, including
manslaughter. One officer's trial ended in a mistrial and two others
were acquitted. Charges against the remaining three were then dropped.
And
now we have the killing of George Floyd, a Houston native who had been
twice convicted of armed robbery. Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was clearly wrong when he kept his knee on Floyd's neck for seven minutes after Floyd begged the cops to stop because he could not breathe.
The
killings of Laquan McDonald and Walter Scott were clearly unjustified
and George Floyd's death was unintended, but in all the cases listed
above, there is no evidence the men were killed because they were black.
Let's take a look at the number of whites, blacks and Hispanics shot dead by cops in 2017. 2018 and 2019.
In 2017: 457 whites, 223 blacks and 179 Hispanics.
In 2018: 399 whites, 209 Blacks and 148 Hispanics.
In 2019: 370 whites, 235 blacks and 158 Hispanics.
During
those three years, there were a total of 667 blacks shot dead by the
police as compare to 1,711 people who were not black.
Another
way of looking at it is that blacks make up only 12 percent of the US
population, but from 2015 – 2019 they accounted for 26.4% of those that
were killed by the police. In other words, the police killed blacks at
about twice their rate in the general population. Does that indicate
that cops are a bunch of racist bastards? Of course not! The disparity
results from the fact that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of
crime.
So, let's put cops killing blacks in its proper
perspective. There are some 800,000 law enforcement officers in the
US. They have to deal with countless thousands of incidents every day,
some of the incidents being perceived as a deadly threat to the
officers. Cops have been ambushed numerous times, mostly by black men,
the most notable ambush being the killing of five Dallas police officers
by a black man in July 2016.
The BLM rabble, liberals and the media continuously make a big deal out of cops shooting unarmed black
men. But an unarmed man can overpower and kill a cop with his bare
hands or may be perceived to be armed and an imminent threat to an
officer's life. Many years ago, two white Houston cops approached a black man
who had been acting erratically in the street during the middle of the
night. He shouted "Hey, I've got something for you" and pulled an
object out of his pocket which he pointed it at them. In the dark, the two cops
perceived the object to be a gun and killed him. The 'gun' turned out
to be a bible. Tragic as this deadly incident was, the two cops were
justified in shooting the poor man.
Yes, there are racist
cops just like there are racists in the general society. But that does
not necessarily mean racist cops discriminate against blacks.
There
are no protests or riots over the daily slaughter of blacks by blacks
in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and other US cities.
Every
so often a
white cop among 800,000 law enforcement officers kills a black man. And
sometimes when that happens, half the
country sinks into chaos like now with the Floyd killing. The hoodlums
who have been looting stores, setting buildings and police cars afire,
and attacking police officers are encouraged to do so by Colin
Kaepernick who calls them freedom fighters.
US law enforcement is accused of being beset with institutional racism by
none other than former President Barack Obama. That's a terrible
accusation when there is little if any proof that white cops kill blacks
because they are black.
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