Follow Up to the Previous Story I Posted

I just posted a news article about a police officer being acquitted in Ohio for the shooting death of a young black woman and injuring her child. I feel incensed by the article because another cop is able to get away with firing a barrage of bullets and taking an innocent human life.

Now I'm not saying that I condone the incidents that led up to the incidental shooting, "...the young woman's boyfriend was a suspected drug dealer," because street pharmaceutical sales is just as deadly, but this woman was unarmed and was hiding in a bedroom with her six children.

The incident is being labeled, "low value on black lives," and I can see why. Each time an officer fires at an innocent unarmed person and the incident is swept under the rug, the message that is being sent to the community is that law enforcement can get away with heinous crimes without recourse. Where is the justice for the families of the murdered individuals? Is it really ok for the police to go and kill during a drug raid? Why is it that white cops are slapped on their wrists for bad behavior and slaughter?

What concerns me most is that the law is supposed to protect and serve the innocent at all costs. Are we only referring to the white communities? Is a black life really that invaluable?

I'm rambling and my thoughts are running rampant, however it is becoming quite clear that you cannot trust a police officer. Not with your life or for protection. Community leaders were worried that this shooting and subsequent death would marr the image of the state. Police officers running rampant with weapons ready to fire at anyone at any time without probable cause marrs the nation's image. Slaps on the wrists for the injustice served marrs the nation's image. Sweeping the incidents under the rug marrs the nation's image.

Protect and serve or protect and break a "nigga's" neck?

I am outraged!