Yes it's true and it's wrong and it's truly wrong that white police officers as if it were
an epidemic keep on killing unarmed African American males over and over again. But if we in the media think that charging a single police officer with murder is the cure-all, fix all, we are sadly mistaken because the problem is bigger than that.
The problem is chances are good most cops, most of the time in almost any circumstance are going to be able to get away with it. It's an open secret that everyone knows. For North Charleston police chief Eddie Driggers to say that we were wrong, in this case dead wrong doesn't bring dead African American victims back to life. This is a fact because for a live police officer to admit that they're dead wrong doesn't raise the dead who were wrongfully murdered in cold blood and in broad daylight in a major American city.
Even when they're caught red handed on camera in broad daylight!
What should happen is the police chief and other members of the police department as well as members of the municipal government should all be held accountable and should all be investigated for wrongdoing because they created an atmosphere and an environment that has permitted the summary execution of unarmed African American men that has become part of a larger epidemic that is infecting American governmental institutions and police departments from coast to coast. Until you have widespread accountability you're not going to be able to solve this problem. You're certainly not going to solve it by prosecuting one white police officer for murder in isolation because though he was the one who pulled the trigger, he is part of a chain that we should hold accountable. If we're not going to believe that and there's no reason why we should barring a confession from the guilty parties, then we have to believe this was a lone wolf incident of a wayward white police officer on his own who decided to kill an unarmed fleeing African American for reasons known only to him wherein he shot him in 8 times in the back while fleeing. It has to be one of these two things and we'll never know which one of these two theories are the correct theory unless there is a full and fair investigation. Appending the outcome of such an investigation, we all have to withhold judgement as to the guilt or innocence of the parties involved. What we also don't have to do is stand silent. We can ask for a full and fair investigation. We should do so loudly because the American public deserves to know the truth. It is a truth that will never be known without an investigation. So I say investigate away!
That is why we have War Crime Trials wherein we hold supervisors and members of government from foreign states around the world accountable in a court of law for their actions, even though they weren't on the scene pulling the trigger and even though they didn't give a direct order to shoot that victim or any victim. We hold them accountable because they are part of a system of a criminal enterprise. In the matter of that enterprise they are culpable and must therefore be held accountable for their wrongdoing. These people are part of a criminal conspiracy to subvert the cause of justice in America against African American males even when they're unarmed, even when they're fleeing, even when their names are Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
Until we hold vigilantes inside and outside of government responsible and accountable, then we, all of us aren't part of the solution. We're part of the problem as well in the matter of shared guilt because we shirk our responsibility as citizens. So I say let there be a full and fair investigation and let's hold all of the guilty parties accountable. I think charging a police officer with murder is a good first step but it's not enough because our communities deserve more.
We deserve better. We want justice for all.
The intent of my diary isn't to charge a racist conspiracy from coast to coast of racism practiced by municipal police departments and their supervising municipal governments. Instead it is the intent of my diary to report that in cases like the one in South Carolina where a white police officer is charged with the murder of an unarmed African American, to call for a full and fair investigation of not only in isolation of the police officer in question but of his supervisors both in the police department and
in municipal government to determine if the police officer in question should be charged in isolation or if there is a matter of shared guilt. The public has a right to the truth and this truth can never be known without a full and fair investigation into this troubling matter.
Also this diary assumes the readership has basic background of the facts of this case which have
been clearly enumberated in other diaries and a large number of other articles.