Actual media headlines:
"Black Man Dies During Arrest By White Cop"
"Career Crook Dies of Heart Attack Hours After Arrest"
Then there's the Internet version, completely true:
I couldn't believe it! While strictly true, that headline strongly implies that the cop SHOULD have been indicted, though all the evidence was to the contrary:
1. The black man was screaming, "I can't breathe!" ANYONE knows that if you can't breathe, you can't even talk, much less scream.
2. The coroner testified that the dead man had not been choked.
3. He died of a heart attack, an hour after his arrest.
4. He had a bad heart, did not take his medicine, was 200 lbs overweight, and did not exercise.
5. He had a long history of resisting arrest by feigning medical problems. That history was known to the arresting officer.
6. The officer arrested him in a "classic case" arrest. He did everything exactly right.
7. The jury was instructed to indict him if there was "any reasonable doubt" that the cop may have been responsible for the death. It took them less than an hour to conclude that there was not.
8. A grand jury needs seven votes to indict. Nine jurors were black. It was not a racist decision.
1. The black man was screaming, "I can't breathe!" ANYONE knows that if you can't breathe, you can't even talk, much less scream.
2. The coroner testified that the dead man had not been choked.
3. He died of a heart attack, an hour after his arrest.
4. He had a bad heart, did not take his medicine, was 200 lbs overweight, and did not exercise.
5. He had a long history of resisting arrest by feigning medical problems. That history was known to the arresting officer.
6. The officer arrested him in a "classic case" arrest. He did everything exactly right.
7. The jury was instructed to indict him if there was "any reasonable doubt" that the cop may have been responsible for the death. It took them less than an hour to conclude that there was not.
8. A grand jury needs seven votes to indict. Nine jurors were black. It was not a racist decision.
We need fewer "reporters" and more "journalists." Fewer "politicians" and more "statesmen". Especially statesmen. Unfortunately, what we have are politicians. The statesmen have all been eliminated from the presidential race, by a public that pays more attention to the news media than to the truth. Our job as citizens is to be the jury. We must not indict where there is no crime, nor elect where there is no virtue. Here's the line-up:
1. A demagogue who preaches fear and hate, and violence against any who oppose him, and who has not once in his life been known to do anything nice for anyone unless it also benefited him..
2. A woman who is currently under Federal investigation for breaches of security so serious that they could land her in prison for life, or even on Death Row, and who has failed at every political office she has ever held.
3. The main architect of the Sequester, an ideologue so concerned with Obamacare that he was willing to bring down the entire country to block it, and who forced us to cut our military budget in half while fighting a war on two fronts.
4. A Socialist who voted to raise taxes in the depth of the worst Depression since the 1930s, and who currently, in the face of a nuclear North Korea, ISIS, Global Warming, and global epidemics, thinks all our problems are caused by there being too many rich Americans!
One of them is going to be our next president. Does it matter which?
