Thursday, December 4, 2014

Ferguson, Cleveland, and Staten Island May be Sparking Reform

   Now, the wheels are turning, and change might be about to be wrought. Long have we heard how blacks are arrested more than whites, and I will confess I do not know if there is injustice there, or coincidence.
   But, if blacks are being falsely targeted, Ferguson, Cleveland, and Staten Island might be placing in motion forces for reform. The cases of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner are among those that shout, asking society for justice.
   We may wonder whether they were even racially motivated, and wonder with cause, but events such as those in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island have caught the nerve of public for their racial elements.
   Nor, is injustice against blacks the only injustice the masses are massing against. Police violence, police injustice is drawing the public's ire. We may yet be weighing whether the killings of Brown, Rice and Garner were justifiable, but people grow tired of case after case of possibilities and begin to see need for change, begin to see the need for police restraint.

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