Crime

In the past couple of years a half dozen high profiled cases of white police officers killing black males have led to the rallying cry of “black lives matter”. What is rarely mentioned is that half of all homicides in the country are committed by black males and over 90% of these are killed by other black males. This means that in the past year there were over 5,000 black men killed by other black men. One of the cases that made a lot of news was the white officer who shot an unarmed black man while he was running away. This was widely condemned and I might add was disgusting to watch. This officer was charged with murder. During this same time period a criminal who escaped from a New York State prison was also in the news. This unarmed man was shot in the back while he was running away but in this case the victim was white. The difference according to the news was the crime. In the first case the crime was a non-violent offence and in the second case the criminal was a convicted murderer. Some might say that if the second man had been black his named might have been added to the black lives matter list. A conjecture that can’t be known.