Until Md. Lawmakers Act, Stories Like Freddie Gray’s Will Continue

Delman Coates – The Baltimore Sun

The story of Freddie Gray is an all too familiar one. Another young black man dead after an interaction with police …

For those of us in Maryland, one thing is abundantly clear: police accountability is a Maryland issue, contrary to Gov. Larry Hogan’s claim that problems like the failure to indict the officer who killed Brown [in Missouri] don’t “impact Maryland.”

A recent policy paper published by the Maryland Chapter of the ACLU found that at least 109 people died during encounters with police in Maryland between 2010 and 2014. The study also revealed a more problematic statistical reality: Although African-Americans make up only 29 percent of Maryland’s population, 69 percent of those who died during an encounter with police were black.

Do White Lives Matter? Obama’s Medal Of Freedom Honoree Says ‘No! Kill ‘Em Too!’

Jim Hughes – The Daily Caller

If you have the benefit of living in England, perhaps you read yesterday’s account ofthe single most vile, disgusting, call to American racial violence in recent memory.

Sadly, if you lived here in America – you didn’t. Stateside, only Tucker Carlson’s
brave Daily Caller and the Washington Times thought that author and Medal of Freedom honoree Toni Morrison’s call for the systematic slaughter of white teenagers was worthy of mention …

“People keep saying, ‘We need to have a conversation about race’…. This is the conversation. I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back … . And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, ‘Is it over?’, I will say yes.” …

Perhaps you missed the case of innocent, unarmed white Utah teen Dillon Taylor, who
bodycam footage proves was complying with officers’ orders to “Put his hands up,” but
was gunned down anyways by Salt Lake City Police on August 11th, 2014 … Perhaps you never heard of the case of unarmed, white teenager Gilbert Collar, age 18, who was killed by black policeman Trevis Austin in Mobile, Alabama on October 6th, 2012…

In other words Toni: It all happens to us whites — and to everybody else — too.

As Police Killings Show, the African American Community Needs More Change

Kerman Maddox – Los Angeles Times

The terrible images are sharp and clean, and they seem to show what common sense says has been happening all along: A white police officer — unnecessarily and unlawfully — took aim and killed an unarmed black man. For once, the white officer was quickly charged with murder.

What happened to Walter Scott in North Charleston, S.C., on April 4, and what has
unfolded there since — a “sickened” police chief, a calm community, a swift arrest —
may represent a turning point that shifts “Black Lives Matter” from protesters’
demands to everyday reality. But I’m not sure …

All of this has taken us far from the hope and joy of Nov. 4, 2008, when President Obama was first elected … I thought America was finally on a fast track to reconciliation, that we’d overcome our obsession with race.

But I was wrong.