re: It appears the athletes are having a rally tonight

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Could it be more relevant to a public debate because the police officer was a government employee acting in his official capacity when he committed the murder?

Was there ever any doubt that the guy who shot Wayde Sims, once identified, would be charged (and plausibly convicted) of this murder?

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No doubt a cop doing wrong is worse than a thug going wrong snd is more upsetting. However, when you have a very small number of bad cops and a plethora of thugs it would seem to me like that would also cause outrage in the community.

And in the Floyd case immediate action was taken and there was no doubt that Chauvin was in big trouble.

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Could it be more relevant to a public debate because the police officer was a government employee acting in his official capacity when he committed the murder?

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I don’t even think this, though it’s a good point, is the real issue. There are only a couple of hundred black men killed by police every year, and most of them are in shootouts and stuff. The real problem is the amount of harassment the average black man has to put up with. It’s got to be humiliating, and any proud man would rebel at that.

I grew up in Metairie where Sheriff Harry Lee’s policy was to harass black men walking in white neighborhoods. On the one hand, this is horribly unfair to upstanding black men. On the other hand, had Harry Lee not done that our neighborhoods would have been overrun by lawlessness. So we had two rights clashing and a very real dilemma.