Neighbors shooting to keep the peace? No thanks
AUGUST 10, 2016 6:20 PM
BY BARRY SAUNDERS
Chad Cameron Copley, bless his heart, can be forgiven if he’s awakened the past few mornings behind bars in the Wake County Detention Center and wondered to himself, “Why am I in here with this jumpsuit on?”
Copley has surely seen, as many of us have, countless instances of unarmed black men being victimized – choked or shot – with minor or no repercussions for the victimizers. If he did what police say he did – shot and killed Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas from behind his garage door – can we really blame him if he thinks that this was no big deal?
No, because so many others have gotten away with it.
Neighborhood watchman patron saint George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012 after we heard a police dispatcher tell him not to follow the kid. We actually saw police choke Eric Garner to death for selling loose cigarettes. We saw police pick up Freddie Gray for having a legal little pocket knife. Gray was dead hours later ...
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