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Title: A Complicit Unjust System, The DOJ

America’s Department of Justice does not render justice when defendants of police officers who kill unarmed black citizen are allowed to pick and choose their jury or move the murderous officer to a favourable place to get an acquittal. That appears so unethical. To deny the community who were victimize the right to partake in the justice of the offender by allowing him or her to be moved to a place that will provide a favourable jury pool is offensive to the Black Community.. This has become customary when police officers’ use deadly force against unarmed African American citizens. We have seen it in the Erick Garner case and many other similar cases. These murders that take place within the Black community should be tried within the Black community. However, the prosecutors who desire to acquit white police officers who do the vast majority of these killings, allow the trial to be relocated to a white community. They will then have an all-white jury who will not convict one of their own when the victim is black. Let it be known, there are peers within the black community who are capable of rendering an unbias verdict.

How does that appear to the Black community? Totally unethical, it should not be allowed. Those who kill without justification should be held accountable for what they did, where they did it, that is justice. Their case should be presented in the black community and if the evidence leads to their innocence so be it, or if its leads to their guilt so be it. Justice will not be trusted, and be respected if it has a double standard, or perceived as complicit in its actions. It must remain impartial. It’s not being impartial when it moves the trial to a favourable community for the defendant so he can be found not guilty by the jury.

Our judicial leaders avert their eyes from images like that of Eric Garner’s last breath and by doing so allow for the deaths of countless others. The officers who killed Garner were tried in an area where it was guaranteed they would be acquitted and so guaranteeing the repeat of these crimes against black people and against humanity by white police officers.

 Racism has consistently been behind the justice system’s reign of terror upon the black community for decades. The Jim Crow laws, the Three strikes laws, the Rockefeller drug laws, Stop and Frisk laws, all disproportionately targeted the black community leading to mass incarceration of young black men and unjust killing of unarmed black citizens by the police.

Many turn to social media to express how much they fear for their lives when they are stopped by the police. We are told to be dutiful, follow the officer’s instruction, speak respectfully and do not resist. We are not told that even by doing so, no matter how respectful we are, is over shadowed by their perception of black people. A prime example is the late Philando Castille, gunned down during what should’ve been a routine traffic stop except the officer in his mind felt threatened by a complying black man even though Philando offered not threat, verbal or physical. He offered no resistance, he was being informative when he told the officer he had a permit to carry a fire arm and had it on him. With that the officer fired seven bullets into the body of Philando Castille. In the vehicle his girlfriend and four-year-old daughter watched in horror, terrified, screaming in fear as that unbelievable incident unfolded before them. Philando did not attempt to pull his weapon nor verbalize any threat to the officer. Yet is dead on account of that unfortunate incident. If only the officer had used common sense. If only he was not a racist.

That however, was not an isolated incident, for that has been going on since the advent of slavery. Unlike those preceding incidents of lynching, bombings, murders, beatings which were preserved in documents this and many of the incidents of this era have been filmed by community cameras or citizens using their mobile. They are preserved on videos on the internet. We can google them to see the embedded racial hatred that resides in the hearts and minds of some of those who have been entrusted with the badge and gun. They have been given the power of life and death over citizens but no one has really developed a test to see what dwell in the minds of those empowered individuals. America’s entrenchment in racism has prevented it from doing so and as young racist white men and women from far and wide venture into the Black community as police officers these incidents will continue. As a nation we have not evolve beyond the days of slavery and Jim Crow laws when a white person would not be found guilty and serve time for killing a black person. The DOJ is making sure that continues when it finds ways of making sure that police officers are not held accountable for the murders they commit against black people.

As the number of police killings of unarmed black citizens in America increases its black citizens grow weary and protests, attempting to show the establishment the error of its ways. They protest saying Black lives matter. But the establishment responds by saying all lives matter disregarding the fact that it is the Black population that is being incarcerated in droves and also being killed in masses by the police. It’s an undeclared war against us. We see the intent of genocide becoming clearer and clearer each day as police continue killing unarmed black citizens. We hear of white citizens arming themselves and spouting hateful racist dialogue on the radio, television and the internet. Americas black citizens who has been victimize by the government through systemic racism fears as this seem to grow out of control and may one-day lead to an open war. It is clear many may want to see us eliminated from the landscape of this psychologically ill and greatly disturbed nation. We however, know our lives matter to God and us. He has allowed us to survive slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration and more. Through it all we thrive as we seek to change the thinking of this nation to accept thru the eyes of the law “that all men are created equal and deserve to be treated equal.”

They must be held accountable for the murders they commit or this will become endemic. They must be held accountable for the murders so they will stop committing them. They must be held accountable for the murders they commit to know and feel the consequences of their bad judgement. They must be held accountable for the murders they commit to know even as police officers they are not above the law.

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