Legal Murder
A bit of breaking news:
Apparently, in Minnesota, it’s legal for police to enter a house without knocking or identifying who they are beforehand and within seconds shoot an innocent person to death. Amir Locke should still be alive today. He was not the subject of the warrant. His only crime was being asleep on a couch at 7 am. He was armed, with a legally owned handgun that at no time was ever pointed at an officer.
It’s pretty disappointing that they didn’t even attempt to put the officer on trial. If he’d been charged and found not guilty, that would be one thing. But they aren’t even going to try. How many people get arrested and charged with less than stellar evidence? How many people end up in jail because they took a plea bargain instead of going to trial with questionable evidence against them? Why is this situation different?
You know why. It’s a white cop and a Black kid with a gun. ‘Nuff said. And please, spare me the nonsense about how Amir Locke mattered and blah blah blah. If he mattered, you’d have the stones to put his killer on trial. We wouldn’t be so afraid to hold police accountable when they kill ABSOLUTELY INNOCENT PEOPLE.
I wonder how this would have played out if a bunch of Black cops busted in on a white kid’s college apartment and gunned him down, especially if the kid were a legal gun owner. I have so many questions and not many answers.
Whatever happened to the 2nd Amendment that white people love so much?
Why are we so afraid to make cops wait more than a few seconds before killing people? It’s not like this is the first time something like this has happened.
Amir Locke was 22 years old. He had his whole life ahead of him. And now his family will never see justice. All they are left with is the feeling so many of our fellow citizens have felt — that it is legal for cops to hunt people like them. What else is there to say?
I weep for the state of our nation.