This has got to STOP!

This young man, African American, was in a car accident in the middle of the night outside Charlotte, NC., in mid-September.  Jonathan Ferrell kicked out the back window of his car to escape and managed to walk to the nearest house, where he rang the bell. The white woman who answered the door slammed it shut when she saw a black man standing there, and quickly called the police. Three Charlotte cops arrived. The young black man stepped forward slightly to greet what he apparently thought was help. One cop tased him. A second cop immediately fired 12 shots, ten of which hit the young black man and killed him.

Melissa Harris-Perry just told about this on her weekend TV show and my eyes hurt and my mouth fell open and my heart sank. This black man was not safe even to breathe in rural North Carolina. He was killed for being black. I am sick to death of white people taking one look at a black guy and assuming he needs killing. Sick to effing death. This has got to stop!

So one cop has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. So what? It should have been murder, and it should have been all three. And the one guy is not convicted yet.

And what about the woman who slammed her door in fear the moment she saw a black male on  her porch? She could have at least seen an ambiguity, but she was 100% sure he was a bad guy. She conveyed no doubt, no questions, to the police, instead making it sound as though her world was about to end because a black man had approached the house. 

Pure pure racism.

Link to news story:
another man killed for being black

Jonathan Ferrell killed by Charlotte NC cops for nothing