"Killing black people is not a crime."

Why Video Evidence Wasn’t Enough to Get Justice for Tamir Rice
The video didn’t matter to the prosecutor because killing black people is not a crime.
By Mychal Denzel Smith DECEMBER 29, 2015

The Nation

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The video didn’t matter to McGinty, because killing black people is not a crime. The police are not afraid of cameras, because the cameras only capture the police doing their jobs. “Serve and protect,” as popularly understood, is a myth. For the police, to serve means to use violence, including lethal force, at their discretion at any time, and to protect means to validate the threat of blackness born of the racist imagination. They are not meant to deter or prevent crime; the police exist to violently reinforce the status quo of white supremacy and economic degradation. Killing black people is not a crime. Instead, it is the basis of American identity.

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