And the cycle goes on and on and on....................................
Cops taunted, victim disrespected and the violence goes on
Cops taunted, victim disrespected and the violence goes on
Cops taunted, victim disrespected and the violence goes on"Black lives matter," one of young men said. "You a b----."
— A heckler quoted in a Tribune news feature about a group of African-Americans who gathered to taunt the police officers investigating a shooting early Friday in the 7100 block of South Paulina Street.
If black lives didn't matter, the men and women in blue would've just rolled slowly past the crime scene, shrugged at the persistence of violence in our most ravaged communities and driven off.
If black lives didn't matter, the officers wouldn't have spent at least an hour in the middle of the night gathering evidence and attempting to interview witnesses while enduring verbal abuse.
Black lives do matter.