David Hampson: Through the telescope backwards: Ferguson, Missouri
This shock has been quietly gestating and now was revealed in all its frightening reality. Was this really Middle America, was this a Rambo movie set, how could this be happening?
The cause was the shooting of an unarmed young black man who may have stolen minor items from a convenience store, was stopped by a white policeman, may have resisted and been involved in a physical altercation with the police officer and was subsequently shot not once, not three times but six times at least twice to the head.
First and foremost and I do not directly accuse the shooting police officer of this, is a deep rooted issue of racism that still effects substantial sectors of the US population. It manifests itself in the application of different rules and treatment within the law.
Finally the serious question of the militarization of US police forces. It was not a Rambo move set. It was the reality in Technicolor of what American police forces have become in recent years.
Where is America going with these two phenomena, the underlying continued serious pockets of racism and the creation of little armies as part of local police forces?
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