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Imagine you are a police officer.\u00a0 You stop an enormous man for walking down the middle of the street.\u00a0 The dispatcher reports that a man meeting this description is suspected in a strong arm robbery near your location.\u00a0 You confront this man and he assaults you.\u00a0 He tries to get your gun. \u00a0The gun goes off.\u00a0 \u00a0He punches you in the face breaking your eye socket. \u00a0Then he takes off.\u00a0 You get out of your car and order him to freeze.\u00a0 \u00a0You have trouble focusing and are in pain.\u00a0 He turns around, laughs and says \u201care you going to shoot me?\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Then he charges.\u00a0 What would you do?\u00a0 Would you consider this to be a threat?\u00a0 Would you fire once and hope it works?\u00a0 Or would you fire at him as many times as you can until he stops?<\/p>\n

Imagine you are black and the man who attacked you is white.\u00a0 Imagine the Governor of the State demands justice for the white man you shot.\u00a0 Imagine him ordering a vigorous prosecution.\u00a0 Imagine him demanding that police and prosecutors do their job.\u00a0 Imagine him demanding the district attorney withdraw from the case because he is black and he has a good relationship with the police.<\/p>\n

Imagine the media referring to this 6\u20194\u2019\u2019 300 pound man as an unarmed teenager.\u00a0 Imagine outrage because someone releases a video of this enormous man roughing up a store clerk saying that could not possibly be relevant to this incident.<\/p>\n

Imagine hundreds of white people rioting and demanding you get prosecuted for murder.\u00a0 Imagine protestors demanding your immediate arrest.\u00a0 Imagine protestors carrying signs saying you must be killed.\u00a0 Imagine CNN sending a crew to film your house.\u00a0 Imagine another news organization provides a map to your home.<\/p>\n

Imagine a white power activist, well known for inflammatory speech, saying that this case proves that white people can\u2019t trust black cops.\u00a0 Imagine large crowds of white people cheering him on.\u00a0 Imagine him claiming that black cops routinely shoot unarmed white teenagers for no reason.<\/p>\n

Imagine the white Attorney General of the United States demanding police departments hire more white cops.\u00a0 Imagine him saying that the police department must have a majority of white cops because a majority of the town is white.\u00a0 \u00a0Imagine him promising the all-white congregation of a local church that change is coming.\u00a0 Imagine him sending in 40 FBI agents because he does not trust the local authorities to do their job.<\/p>\n

Any questions?<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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