In protest of the Minnesota shooting of Philando Castile

The rule of law is ignored.

Cops kill with impunity based seemingly, given the stats, on the race of the victim.

The system shuffles the shooting cop off stage, hides his identity, misplaces the dash board camera footage, gives us a bs song and dance that doesn’t fly, for, after all, to give one recent example, how can you justify killing a black man, Philando Castile, in Minnesota for having a busted tail light?

If Castile had been arrested for anything, had he not been killed, or if any one of us were arrested, the police would circulate a sorrowful mug shot, showing us off to severe disadvantage, and whisper “on background” to some journalist or other a brief slanderous history.

But the Castile cop is on administrative leave, traveling under the radar.

What we can expect, following Castile’s death, is that they’ll clear the officer 6 or more months later – after a “full and fair” investigation – behind closed doors – and announce the results when most have moved on to another tragic public incident.

The law fails when it lacks force and suffers from favor. Continue reading →