One Michael Brown incident wasn\’t enough? Evidently not
Yesterday, a Saint Louis off-duty officer shot and killed a Black 18 year old – Vonderrit Deondray Myers Jr.
Crowds have already gathered demanding justice, shouting the “hands up, don\’t shoot” line used after Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson, MO officer Darren Wilson. Police cars have been attacked and who knows what else is taking place.
Can jesse jackson (currently milking the racial angle to ebola victim Michael E. Duncan\’s death down in Texas) and al Sharpton (always looking to milk anything racial) be far behind? I doubt it.
But this one is going to be a bit harder.
It seems that, unlike Brown, we are able to see Vonderrit Myers\’ police record. And it isn\’t a very good one. At 18 he already had a felony under his belt and was wearing a police-required ankle bracelet to track his movements.
In addition, the police officer claimed Myers had shot at him. And according to Jim Salter\’s Associated Press article, “Ballistic evidence shows Myers fired three shots before his gun jammed, Dotson said. Police said they recovered the 9mm gun, which had been reported stolen on Sept. 26.”
Want to take bets on whether Vonderrit had a legal-carry permit?
You can read much more about it in Jim Hoft\’s article for gatewaypundit.com.
I suppose we can laugh at the absurdity of the PO (Professionally Oppressed) crowd claiming that this is some kind of “rogue cop kills poor innocent Black teenager” narrative that is sure to be used by the race hustlers.
But I am not laughing.
The reason? Because I know that – Vonderrit Deondray Myers Jr. notwithstanding – there is racism in the United States. A lot of it.
And when what appears to be a perfectly justifiable police action like this one is immediately exploited by the “if he\’s Black the cop must be racist” crowd and the “here come the cameras so here I am” race hustlers, it is guaranteed to turn more and more people who, at one time, had sympathy for the cause of racial justice, into cynics who don\’t want to hear about it – even when the racism is real.
Remember the children\’s story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”? That was fiction. But, as we are seeing in Saint Louis, the lesson it taught was spot-on.
Sad. So terribly sad.
