Today in Tabs: I Can't Watch

Bad apples.

America's heavily armed racist blood-cult continued its killing spree on Saturday, this time in North Charleston, SC. It was the usual story, of course: a crazed black brute struggling with the hero in blue, an officer threatened, a regrettable event but an event forced by the now safely deceased aggressor. But then a new video came out and it looked strangely like a police officer calmly shooting down an unarmed man who was already 25 feet away and running for his life. After shooting his fleeing victim 8 times, the officer loudly demands the lifeless body put its hands behind its back, as if he is unaware that shooting a human being 8 times causes that person's death, or perhaps unaware that the man he just killed was a human being at all. The slaying is so egregious, and the lies told after the fact so false and self-serving, that the officer has been charged with murder, and while he will surely not be convicted, even just the barest acknowledgement that something might be wrong here feels like a tiny bit of progress?

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Published on April 08, 2015 10:03
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