[news] Cops in America Can Kill Some People With Impunity

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By CYNTHIA McKINNEY - May 1, 2008

...[T]he criminal justice system in [the United States] "always finds a rationale for letting off cops who kill black and brown people." Indeed, police officers seem to know that they can kill certain people with impunity...the prospects are that black and brown men and women will continue to be murdered by police officers who, fundamentally, seem scared of black people. That fear apparently extends to the larger community because juries construct ways to let murderous police officers escape just punishment.  


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