“No One is Above the Law,” Except Non-Black Cops

by | Feb 7, 2017 | News | 0 comments

What is going on here? Wrong is wrong, right? A crime is a crime no matter who commits it, right? We (black people) are constantly bullied into believing the judicial is fair. Attorney General Bob Ferguson just announced, while blocking the Muslim ban, that no one is above the law not even the President. If no one is above the law, fair and equal treatment, make this make sense:

A cop tasered a man to death, he was sentenced to life in prison. Another cop choked a man to death and his sergeant was stripped of her badge in connection with the murder.

Let’s dig deeper. Marcus Eberhart, former East Point, Georgia sergeant responded to a domestic dispute. He chased down the suspect, hand cuffed him, and tasered him multiple until eventually, 24 year-old, George Towns stopped breathing. Sergeant Eberhart was recently sentenced to life in prison for Towns death.

Then you have Daniel Pantaleo who stopped Eric Garner to frisk him, allegedly for selling loose squares. Garner asked Pantaleo to stop harassing him, which led to Pantaleo putting Garner in an illegal chokehold. Garner died, his death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner. Pantaleo who administer the chokehold was stripped of his badge. Pantaleo’s supervisor Sgt. Kizzy Adonis is facing charges for Garner’s death. Pantaleo the man who actually choked Garner and continued to choke Garner despite Garner gasping for air and saying, “I can’t breathe,” has yet to be charged with a crime.

Let’s dig deeper! Eberhart, the former sergeant who received a life sentence, is black. Adonis, who is being charged because she didn’t intervene and stop Pantaleo from killing Garner, is black. Pantaleo, who performed an illegal chokehold and killed an innocent man, is not black.

So it is hard to comprehend what Attorney General Ferguson meant when he said “no one is above the law.”

Seems like if a black person is killed, assaulted, or harassed by a non-black person they are certainly above the law. This country still doesn’t care about black people.

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