Not despite it being to the contrary.

That means a lot. 🙄

Trayvon was hunted down in the streets like wild game and then vilified.

Our issues run deep.

Who were also shot.

As the heroes that they are.
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I'm not talking about more officers. I'm talking about an innocent civilian who did NOTHING wrong except drive while being black. He was shot down like a dog and the person responsible got off scot free.

I did not realize your post was about something other than the Congressional baseball practice shooting.

This one is really upsetting. Do you remember how the little kids at the Montessori school where he worked miss him and made cards for him?

But so was Tamir Rice and Sandra Bland and several hundred others.

I didn't realize this was about that.

It's like, "Oh well. Let me parse what you said. They did acknowledge there was a black cop that was shot." Seriously? That's your response?

Because "deafening silence" mischaracterizes the national coverage and protests last year.

Moreover, he was nobody's representative, something that makes the Scalise incident national news from the get-go. The "more surgery" also keeps it in the news. We'd have less if he'd died.

I'm talking about TODAY! The officer got off today. Barely an interruption on CNN.

The story gets national coverage and there are probably protests organizing as we post.

The people that I've seen upset and crying about this are mainly fellow black people. Others are either completely silent or are using their voice to say that I'm imagining things. But, thanks for chiming in.

was a person who absolutely wanted this guy to be able to buy a gun, any gun he wanted, and carry it anywhere he pleased.

Meanwhile, Mr. Castillo was driving, did everything right and got shot by a guy who gets to go home to his family every night and will likely be in a new police department within six months.

It is disgusting and horrifying.

Now, people will call me a cop hater. Nope. I don't hate them, just don't trust them.

It's not about hating cops, it's about wanting them to be held accountable for their actions.

second degree involuntary manslaughter...so, there is no case of "overcharging" which is so often the claim to excuse this crap.

Cops need to stop shooting people just becasue they are black.

And that is what is happening over and over. Cop sees a black face and figures he's in danger.

Maybe some better training and screening of applicants needs to happen too, so that these people who feel endangered by someone doing what they were told to do (in this case, reaching for his wallet to produce the driver's license the cop asked him for) simply because of the color of their skin.

This makes me so angry.

Check out @BenjaminPDixon's Tweet:

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That poor family

I'm so depressed by this. It's so wrong.