Columnist Larry Elder: The media, led by CNN, covers Ferguson as a civil rights story -- rather than focusing on the simple question of whether Officer Wilson responsibly used lethal force. Incredibly, Harvard’s Charles Ogletree, once Barack Obama’s law professor, called Ferguson just like the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ogletree said: This reminds us of exactly what happened years ago when I was a young kid to the great man Emmett Till, the young kid who was killed in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. This is even worse, because Michael Brown did not break in any law at all, in terms of the police officer. Many say Ferguson suffers because its police force doesn’t look like the city. Meaning what? That white cops can’t police black areas? That when people call 911, they want an officer who looks like them? What do the activists think Dr. King would say if we assumed cops were bad because of the color of their skin? He’d call it what it is: racially profiling white cops. So much for evaluating people, including police officers, not on the basis of their color -- but on the content of their character.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 02:49:40 +0000
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