Make no mistake: I believe there was a miscarriage of justice when the grand jury refused to indict the overzealous police officer who choked Eric Garner to death. Because grand jury testimony is not published, we'll never know what happened exactly. But the video evidence suggests that at a bare minimum, a jury should have heard this case.
In the case of Michael Brown, the forensic evidence proved that Officer Darren Wilson did not use excessive force and was justified in shooting the 6'4" nineteen-year-old who had just committed a robbery within hours of his death. As unfortunate as that was, it was perfectly defensible.
Less defensible than the shooting was the reaction by the MSM who only fanned the flames of fears of racist cops run amok and the Justice Department's Eric Holder flying to Ferguson, Missouri, to investigate, allegedly, the racist situation that existed there that engendered the shooting in the first place. Meekly, quietly, months after the incident and after scores of businesses were looted and trashed and two police officers were murdered in cold blood in New York City, Justice said that there would be no indictment against Officer Wilson, who subsequently quit his job and move away.
The drumbeat continues: Blacks are oppressed, whites oppress. There is no variation on this theme, as it has been sanctified by the MSM and the heightened rhetoric from the White House, Congress and the Department of Justice, not to mention such leading civil rights acolytes such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Because whites (not all whites, but whites in general) were once slaveholders, necessarily all whites have racist tendencies -- just ask that leading sociologist Chris Rock about our duty to accept responsibility for slavery -- and blacks are always the oppressed, never the oppressor.
To mitigate this, the theory of hate crimes arose a couple of decades ago. Not only was it directed at acts committed with racial motives, but also ones with homophobic or ethnic ones as well. The funny thing about hate crime legislation, however, is that it specified no particular group that could be assessed with a hate crime violation. All that was necessary, allegedly, is that racial, ethnic or sexual preference discrimination be the motivation to cause an aggravated charge of hate crime in addition to the murder, rape, assault and battery that was the underpinning for the charge.
Yet that's not what happens in reality. Where there seem to be clear reasons to elevate a charge to a hate crime involving a black suspect, officials inevitably say they saw no reason for the elevated charge. That's odd, because there seem to be plenty of instances where blacks commit crimes against white people simply because the victims are white which, reading the plain meaning of the hate crime statute, would almost invite the greater charge. Part of the problem is that the MSM and Justice can't seem to find any evidence of racially-motivated crimes involving black suspects. It's as if blacks can't possibly be motivated by hatred when committing crimes.
The saddest part about this is that the majority of the examples I'm about to list I found on Facebook. Yep, for all those lefties out there who think that I get my misinformation from Fox News -- Faux News to them -- I routinely am left gobsmacked by stuff I find on Facebook, a site founded by that noted liberal Mark Zuckerberg. So let's consider some of these salient examples for readers to decide whether hate crime charges would have been advisable:
2013, Christopher Lane: Mr. Lane was an Aussie exchange student playing baseball on scholarship for a small college in Oklahoma. While out jogging one day, he was shot and killed by three youths, two black, one Latino, who said initially that they did it because they were bored. It later came out that the Twitter account of one of the murderers held tweets that indicated that he hated white people, had knocked out five whites after the Trayvon Martin verdict and that 90% of white people are nasty, that he hated them. No hate charges filed.
2013, Staff Sergeant David Dunlap and Whitney Butler: Mr. Dunlap was shot in the back of his head when he came home to investigate when the house alarm went off. As his pregnant wife looked over his body, she too was shot in the back of the head. Her unborn child died as well. The killer got life in prison but is eligible for parole because he was seventeen-years-old at the time of the murders. Why he had to kill them from behind instead of simply fleeing raises serious questions as to intent. No hate charges filed.
2008, Jan Pawel Pietrzak and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak: The biracial couple was killed execution style after the Marine husband was bound and gagged and forced to watch his wife be sexually assaulted. Although the murderers stated that the motive was mere robbery, Nigger lover was painted on the walls of the crime scene. When the Marine's mother wrote the White House asking why her son and daughter-in-law inspired such hatred and loathing, the White House issued a form letter of condolence. Only after that letter was made public did the White House issue an apology. Despite the obvious evidence of a crime motivated by racial hatred, no hate crimes were charged.
2015, James Stuhlman and pet: Three black youths got bored playing basketball, so they decided to rob someone. Mr. Stuhlman happened along at the wrong time and place and, when he pleaded for his life, they shot him dead. No hate crime charges were filed.
2015, Unknown victim: A white man minding his own business on a subway when an unknown black man asked him about the Michael Brown case. After saying he hadn't given it much thought, he was savagely beaten. The beating was filmed on a cellphone by another passenger. Security footage was used to identify the thug, who was charged with assault and battery, but no hate crime.
2014, Dillon Taylor: An unarmed white teen was shot by a black cop in Utah. The investigation continues, but at this point, there is no reason to believe that Mr. Dillon did anything threatening to the officer. There is even body-cam footage of the incident. Yet the MSM and the Justice Department see no reason to report this story or investigate the incident.
There are probably more such incidents out there of which I'm unaware. I mention the Dillon Tyler case only because of the reverse similarities with the Michael Brown case and the comparatively little national attention to it that's been paid. By no means am I suggesting that it was a hate crime; but the lack of attention is eyeopening. If Michael Brown's death warranted national attention due to the circumstances, so did Mr. Dillon's death. Yet the MSM and the Justice Department remain silent.
The point is that American lives matter, not just black ones or white ones. And just as whites can commit crimes out of racial hatred, so can blacks. This notion that only whites are racist or motivated by racial hatred is absurd. Blacks are human and subject to the same prejudices as whites. To act otherwise is itself racist, not to mention unfair.
The laws is supposed to be colorblind. In Mr. Obama's America, that's untrue.
(c) 2015 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles
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