While visiting All About Race I discovered yet another story about yet another senseless murder. Why are these stories so craftily hidden from main stream media?
Twenty two year old Oscar Grant was detained to be questioned about an alleged fight. The video shows him cooperating with officers. The video also shows Oscar wrestled to the ground, with a knee in his back. Him laying there not moving. Then the video shows an officer pulling out his gun and shooting Oscar in the back at close range.
I was speechless.
I remember so many stories of beatings gone bad. Police brutality, cruelty that escalates in the heat of the moment. Barbaric behavior by those taught to be above it. Those situations are horrific and I don't know about you, but visions of this nature stay with me a long time. None of those stories compare to this one. A subway station, people milling around everywhere and on video an officer of the law draws his weapon and shoots an unarmed, non threatening person in the back.
Watch the video and answer this question for me please: Have we really come that far?
2 comments:
OH. MY. GOSH.
This is horrific!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way, I didn't catch the city. What part of the country did this take place in?
Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
I don't see how there could be any reasonable explanation for the shooting, but then explanations don't really matter. The young man is dead.
It seems to me there isn't much in our world right now that does make sense.
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