This article was contributed by the distinguished jurist, Judge John Wilson (ret.)
For a brief moment, the country stood united. No one of good will watched the video of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd and believed that the officer’s actions were appropriate. No one has seriously argued that Officer Chauvin should not be charged with one degree or another of murder. No one can seriously argue that the authorities in Minneapolis did not handle this matter quickly and effectively.
And yet, despite this unity, there are those who found their opportunity to divide us once again, and put forth the most ludicrous and unreasonable methods of dealing with the alleged epidemic of police brutality.
In fact, there is no increase in police violence. According to John Hirschauer in National Review, “last year, according to the Washington Post’s database of police-involved shootings, nine unarmed black people were shot and killed by the police, compared to 19 unarmed white people. Assuming that the use of lethal force was unjustified in each of those nine cases — not always a safe assumption — the resulting deaths are no less tragic for being so statistically improbable.”
This is not to say that those who believe there is a disparity between the treatment of whites and blacks by police officers are utterly wrong. According to the National Violent Death Reporting System, “victims were majority white (52%) but disproportionately black (32%) with a fatality rate 2.8 times higher among blacks than whites. Most victims were reported to be armed (83%); however, black victims were more likely to be unarmed (14.8%) than white (9.4%) or Hispanic (5.8%) victims.”
On this statistical basis alone, people who wish to highlight this difference between the treatment of blacks and whites by law enforcement and seek redress are not unreasonable. However, reasonable discourse and practical solutions regarding this issue have been hijacked by extremism and its enablers among legislators.
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Both father and son have expressed extreme radical views in the past. Keith Ellison was associated with the Nation of Islam in his youth, and was a strong defender of its leader, Louis Farrakhan. According to CNN, “in one scathing column from 1990 unearthed by CNN’s KFile, Ellison accused the president (of the University of Minnesota) of chilling the free expression of black students by openly criticizing a controversial speaker invited to speak on campus by the Africana Student Cultural Center. That speaker, Kwame Ture (also known as Stokely Carmichael), had publicly claimed that Zionists had collaborated with the Nazis in World War II and has been quoted as saying ‘Zionism must be destroyed.'”
His son Jeremiah, has publicly expressed his support for ANTIFA, stating “Unless someone can prove to me ANTIFA is behind the burning of black and immigrant owned businesses in my ward, I’ll keep focusing on stopping the white power terrorist THE ARE ACTUALLY ATTACKING US!” His father, while deputy chief of the DNC, also expressed his own support for ANTIFA by endorsing a handbook for the group.
The Report concludes tomorrow
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