Police Killings Of Black People -- America Still Operates on the Dred Scott Principles

[Speaking Truth To Power]Officer Yanez. KSTP TV screen shotPhilando's Murderer Jeronimo Yanez Gets Way -- Are You Kidding Me? Victims Mom Mourns We must pose several serious questions about the future of Black people in America at the hands of police following the acquittal last Friday of the murderer of Philando Castile, Officer Jeronimo Yanez.Yanez was acquitted for pumping seven shots into this Black man while he sat in his car with his girlfriend and their four year old daughter. Yanez said he shot Castile because “I thought he had a gun,” the standard shameful excuse used so often to justify the summary execution police regularly inflict on innocent Black people.However, since White America likes to promote and propagate the false notion that the Second Amendment is a right enshrined by the Founding Fathers, we should ask this: why would gun possession by a Black person be automatically deemed dangerous to police? Especially when the licensed holder specifically alerted his killer, in a respectful tone, after being stopped fearing he could be shot should the weapon be discovered accidentally.It did not help. Yanez pumped seven bullets into the car with Castile's girlfriend seated next to him and their daughter in the back seats. Since Friday’s acquittal, many have denounced the unjust verdict, including Castile’s mother. “My son loved this city, and this city killed my son,” said Valerie Castile. “And a murderer gets away. Are you kidding me right now? The system continues in this country continue to fail Black people and will continue to fail us.”The truth Black America must face is: this system was always meant to exploit and brutalize us—not serve us. America’s indigenous police, from its inception as Slave Patrols, have been used as a tool of terrorism to control Blacks. For reference, consider what Dr.

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