The news out of Ferguson is unbelievable to me.
How can we stop these senseless, racist, testosterone-fueled killings of young black people?
How can we hold our police forces accountable for the fucked-up things they do?
Haven't really kept up with this much, due to my low information diet. So I Googled a couple of articles.
Apparently the police officer, Darren Wilson, suffered a facial fracture in an apparent racial attack on the officer by a black, testosterone fueled teen. As corroborated by 12 witnesses, the teen in question attempted to take the officers weapon.
My guess is that since the teen had just strong arm robbed a store and assaulted the employee, that he feared arrest for that and that his adrenaline and testosterone were running rather high.
The easiest way to stop this sort of thing would be for young, testosterone fueled, racist black men to refrain from attacking police officers and other people.
The truth is that the number of "unprovoked" killings of black youth by white police officers is as near to zero in a country of 335 million as is realistic. While the number of black on black murders is well over 15 each and everyday in this country. (Google fact check this if you like)
Here is a quote from and interesting article. (you can google quote to goto source) --- Jeremy Henwood, a white police officer in San Diego, California was murdered in an unprovoked attack by a black thug. The thug, Dejon White, is suspected of critically wounding another white police officer one day earlier. The only motivation appears to be racial hatred of white people.
This whole thing is so reminiscent of the Trayvon Martin attempted murder of Hispanic community volunteer George Zimmerman. In that case the much tattooed Martin bashed Mr. Zimmerman's head against a concrete curb while shouting he was going to kill him.
The media portrayed that episode as if Zimmerman was guilty, when in fact it was just the opposite.
My guess is that when all is said and done that the police officer in Ferguson will be exonerated as was Zimmerman.
Furthermore, I guess the national media will fail to report the over 100 homicides committed by black people that will occur in my home state of Missouri this year.
And thus, I am going to continue my low information (or at least no national fake media) diet.