@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:It’s not a one off by any means, it’s the latest of a long sorry number of African Americans dying in police custody, like Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Michael Brown was killed in justified self defense as he tried to murder a police officer.
Eric Garner resisted a lawful arrest and was injured in the struggle.
It is true that more minorities are killed by police these days, but that's because police have fewer nonlethal options available these days.
Police used to have more nonlethal options available to them, but then four police officers were lynched for using nonlethal force to defend themselves from Rodney King in 1992. Now minorities who might have once been clubbed into submission will be shot and killed.
The current lynching of the girl in Central Park is also very likely to result in a lot more minorities being killed. Where once people would deal with threatening behavior by calling 911, it is likely that in the future threatening minorities will just be killed by their purported victim without any police involvement.