On July 6, a white (Latino) cop in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights shot Philando Castile, 32, multiple times after a traffic stop for a broken tail light. He died because the cop apparently panicked when Castile reached for his registration.
Immediately after the shooting, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton shot his mouth off with this inflammatory remark:
“Would this have happened if the driver and passenger were white? I don’t think it would have. So I’m forced to confront, and I think all of Minnesota is forced to confront, that this kind of racism exists.”
To the police it must seem like there is a war on cops. The Minnesota shooting was soon followed by the assassination of five cops in Dallas. And now we have three more cops shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Let’s look at some unpleasant facts that civil libertarians and President Obama will not mention. Over the last decade, 40 percent of all cop killers have been black even though blacks make up only 15 percent of the population. And cops face an 18.5 times greater chance of being killed by a black male than an unarmed black male has of being killed by a police officer.
All the sermonizing about uniting a nation divided between whites and blacks is not likely to reduce the high number of violent crimes committed by blacks. And all that sermonizing will not reduce the confrontations between white cops and black men, some of which will turn deadly.
Keeping those facts in mind, is it any wonder that cops will continue to have a nervous trigger finger when confronting blacks? One wrong move could panic a cop into pulling that trigger. That’s not racism, that’s known as officer survival!
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