Read this . . . if you believe that black men get equal treatment from by the police.

I found this on the blog DailyKos and thought it a good example of the different kind of way police treat different people.

"We've been told repeatedly that if only Eric Garner hadn't resisted, or been so fat, the medical examiner wouldn't have found that his death was a homicide due to asphyxiation.   We've been told that if only Michael Brown hadn't been a vicious cigarillo thug he wouldn't have received a bullet wound in his arm that either came from the back while he was running away, or from the front while he hands were up . . . .   We've been told that if only Jonathan Crawford had dropped the toy air-rifle he picked up from the shelves at Walmart within two seconds, that if only Tamir Rice had dropped his BB Gun within one second, and if only Darrien Hunt hadn't been running away as police shot him in the back for "brandishing" an unsharpened Katana Sword, all three of these people would still be alive today.

"So then why exactly is this person still alive after going on a violent shooting spree, including pointing her gun at officers while wearing body armor? . . .  "

The article then goes on to describe a 45 year old woman who drove around a Chattanooga neighborhood dressed in body armor, randomly shooting into other vehicles, "leading police on a chace chase, and pointing her gun at an officer."    The most shocking thing of all, in light of the recent killing of unarmed black men, is that she "was taken into custody without incident of injury and charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder, seven counts of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, felony evading arrest, and felony reckless endangerment."

Don't get me wrong:   the outcome in Chattanooga is exactly what we would hope for.   But consider the offenses:   multiple actual gunshots fired, attempts at actual murder, a police chase, pointing a gun at an officer.

Compare the offenses of the young black men in the paragraph above:   resisting arrest, walking down the middle of the street, stealing cigarillos, selling tax-free cigarettes, a 12 yetr old playing with a BB gun in a park, another man simply holding an unloaded gun he was considering buying in a Walmart store.    Not a one had a gun wih live bullets.   Ye everyone dead within a matter of seconds at the hands of the police.

Get the point?

Ralph