#Blacklivesmat

[Catholic_Lady]

But what started all this, the shooting of Michael Brown, was proven not to have been racially motivated at all. It just seems like the same outrage wouldn't have happened if Darren was black.

You are missing the context of that situation in Ferguson. If Darren Wilson were black, it would have still been an issue. The Police as a unit were at odds with the entire community.

Police in Ferguson, MO, were abusing power, beating up and extorting residents, writing superfluous tickets solely to fund the courts, etc.

For example:

Even relatively routine misconduct by Ferguson police officers can have significant
consequences for the people whose rights are violated. For example, in the summer of 2012, a
32-year-old African-American man sat in his car cooling off after playing basketball in a
Ferguson public park. An officer pulled up behind the man’s car, blocking him in, and
demanded the man’s Social Security number and identification. Without any cause, the officer
accused the man of being a pedophile, referring to the presence of children in the park, and
ordered the man out of his car for a pat-down, although the officer had no reason to believe the
man was armed. The officer also asked to search the man’s car. The man objected, citing his
constitutional rights. In response, the officer arrested the man, reportedly at gunpoint, charging
him with eight violations of Ferguson’s municipal code. One charge, Making a False
Declaration, was for initially providing the short form of his first name (e.g., “Mike” instead of
“Michael”), and an address which, although legitimate, was different from the one on his driver’s
license. Another charge was for not wearing a seat belt, even though he was seated in a parked
car. The officer also charged the man both with having an expired operator’s license, and with
having no operator’s license in his possession. The man told us that, because of these charges,
he lost his job as a contractor with the federal government that he had held for years.

(bold mine)
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/fil...report.pdf (page 6)

Please, just peruse that document and tell me honestly that you think it was the color of that cop's skin that was the reason that the people of Ferguson finally said enough.

But if racism is what caused the riots, and they would have happened even if Darren were black, would that mean then that a black cop can be racist against blacks?