What Racial Bias and Prejudice Look Like to Blind Justice!
For the first time that I can remember we get to juxtapose two officer involved shootings that occurred in the same citywide area and state that became national headlines. Before this we would usually have to compare what happened in a place like SC to what happened in Texas or elsewhere, but now we can really see what racial bias and prejudice actually looks like in the same metropolitan area, the Twin Cities.
For those that aren’t familiar, the two pictures at the top are the Latino cop that killed Philando Castile and Philando Castile, and at the bottom is the Black cop Mohamed Noor, and the white woman that he killed.
In the Philando Castile case, the cop wasn’t convicted and received a $45k severance package from the department.
Philando’s mother later settled on a $3 million dollar payout from the city for the wrongful death of her son, and his girlfriend received $800k for her and their child’s trauma.
In the Mohamed Noor case, he was convicted of third degree murder and second degree manslaughter and can get up to 35 years in jail. This was “believed to be the first time that a Minneapolis police officer was convicted of murder for an on duty shooting”.
Her family was awarded $20 million dollars, yep the largest payout ever in Minnesota history!
Not only did these two cases happen in the same metropolitan area, they both had wildly different outcomes and the cities paid out wildly different restitution amounts!
So the next time y’all (and by y’all I mean white people that don’t believe injustice exists) say that justice is blind and that the law is equal, take this into account.
A friend of mine said, the Black cop should have just said he feared for his life and then he would have gotten off, but I guess saying that “you tried to neutralize a potential threat ain’t the same!”
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