Sigh, comparing apples and oranges again!
Okay, let's look at the premise of this article.
Nearly every white suspect of a crime has been able to exercise their right to a fair trial. On the other hand a Black suspect may find themselves dead before they get a chance to be proven innocent. The recent cases of Jayland Walker and Robert E. Crimo demonstrate this phenomenon.
Okay. Big problem with this. There are 10 million people who are arrested every year by police. Of those, maybe 1000 of them are killed by police. (and about 100 police are killed by suspects.) Even doing simple math, you know that most of the 1000 killed were white and if even a minimum demographic of those arrested were black, the vast majority of blacks do not "find themselves dead". Being killed by police, while high compared to other industrialized countries, is still an exceptional incident, not the rule.
Next up.
Before Walker was killed, he was planning to wed his fiancee Jaymeisha Beasley. However, she was killed in a violent car crash just a mont before his killing, reported WKYC. People who knew Walker told reporters the incident shook him as well as his behavior which they called “strange.” Before the police shooting, he had no previous issues with the authorities. Family attorney Bobby DiCello also described Walker’s last days “bizarre” but that his behavior was not lethal nor an excuse for the shooting.
It’s unclear whether Walker shot his firearm at the police during the chase as authorities claim.
Simply not true. There was a flash of gunshot out of the window of his car. And, yes, he had a gun on him. He jumped out of a moving vehicle wearing a ski mask (in late June) and made a threatening gesture towards police. The details of this case SCREAM "Suicide by Cop".
Crimo’s history didn’t establish a clear and present danger to deny his application for a FOID card. However, he did post music and music videos streaming platforms alluding to gun violence and depicting school shootings which has since been taken down, per Chicago’s WGN 9 News.
Last time I checked, we can't arrest people for what they post on the internet. If we did, we'd get rid of half the population of USMB.
We have decided, as a country, that crazy people have a God Given Right to have a gun, and it's just as bad when you have a convicted felon picked up on his fifth felony because Kim Foxx has unliterally decided to not enforce the gun laws in Cook County.
So how is it that a Black man with no criminal background gets 60 bullets to the body but a white mass shooter - who’s shown multiple signs of being dangerous - lives to see another day? Even if the rest of Crimo’s days are spent in a prison cell, Walker never got the chance to sit before a judge.
Um, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Yes, we all hope that the cops we encounter will show fantastic judgement, and most of the time, THEY GET IT RIGHT.
Did they get it wrong in this Walker's case? Maybe they did. Or maybe they acted appropriately given the information they had, a masked suspect firing a gun and evading police.
Did they get it wrong in Crimo's case? IN the arrest, no. In not flagging him as dangerous, yes, but again, we live in a gun pornocracy, and we aren't going to change no matter how many parade goers or preschoolers pay the price.
