Refuse to Be Silent

Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Missouri chapter said in a statement of condolence to Michael Brown’s family, “Unarmed African-American men are shot and killed by police at an alarming rate. This pattern must stop.”

Yes. It must stop, and yet the pattern of police officers shooting unarmed African-American men is not slowing down.

Just how often police officers shoot unarmed individuals is difficult to quantify because the reporting of use of force...