But it is clear to everybody that if there is no justification there is at least a convincing "explanation".
The attack to the police didn't come as a surprise.
It is still wrong, very wrong. But the tension has been growing for years and years and years.
Now we start to know this violence better because today everybody has a smart phones and a video camera. Not because there have been official investigations and the violent officers have been punished or sacked from their job.
Sometimes, and not always, they are punished now, but only when somebody gets them in a video shooting at a harmless prisoner already at their feet. Otherwise the official version that they have shot a criminal for self defence is always accepted.
A black man is black and cannot change it. If his ethnic group is targeted with uncontrolled violence by some (by many) members of the police force, and if the police authority protects the violent officers, a reaction at some point had to come.
In the last 72 hours eight people were killed, not just five
- One black man shot in his head when he was already caught by police and harmless
- One black man shot in his chest by a police officer in front of his wife and his 4 years old daughter because he had a broken indicator in his car.
- Five police officers that - I am sure - were not responsible for the previous killings, but that were wearing the same uniform of the two criminal killers.
- Another black man that has lost his mind and has decided to shot dead the 5 police officers before being killed himself. He was not a known criminal. He was a normal black man. And he knew that if things in the US do not change, his children would have had much more chance of being killed, arrested, imprisoned, punished and expelled by school of any "white" boy.
I am deeply sorry for the eight of them. But the problem is clear.
Racism is the problem, and it has to be resolved once for all.
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