Police officers shot a young black man in St Paul who had a broken tail light. What I find unbelievable is not so much that the police shot a young black man. That seems to be alarmingly common. What I can't believe is that it happened in Minnesota. That's something that happens in the south, California and Wisconsin. If it can happen in Minnesota, it can happen anywhere. Maybe not in Vermont. If you are one of the five young black men there, you probably already know how to avoid the police.
Now people are shooting the police in Dallas. I'm not on Facebook, so I don't have all the answers to society's problems, but I doubt making the police more paranoid is going to help anybody.
Whenever I go to Israel, people always warn me that Israel is a dangerous place, even though it is not. No one has ever told me to be careful when going to the United States. Then again, I am not a young black man.
Odd, we only get national news coverage for a black man being shot by the police in St. Paul. No uproar over a 4 year old boy < black > that was killed in a drive by shooting in North Minneapolis.. His 18 month old sister was also struck, but not fatally. Wonder who conducted the drive by? ALL LIVES MATTER. The black community has to lose the All Black Lives Matters movement has to get rid of that tag line. It's racist, divisive and does nothing to alleviate this terrible divide.
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