A Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, who died after a confrontation with the officer involving an apparent choke hold caught on video.
ERLC President, Russell Moore, responds to this case.“I’m stunned speechless by this news. We hear a lot about the rule of law—and rightly so. But a government that can choke a man to death on video for selling cigarettes is not a government living up to a biblical definition of justice or any recognizable definition of justice. We may not agree in this country on every particular case and situation, but it’s high time we start listening to our African American brothers and sisters in this country when they tell us they are experiencing a problem.
http://erlc.com/article/erlcs-russell-moore-responds-to-eric-garner-case
Moore starts out on a good note, but then the paragraph goes south:
i) To begin with, it's not just black Americans who are "experiencing a problem" with law enforcement. There's a pattern of lawless law enforcement in this country. And it's accelerated under Obama's watch.
ii) Moreover, it's not rightwingers who are obsessed with tobacco. The "crime" in this case is thanks to liberal food Nazis like Major Bloomberg and current CDC director Tom Frieden:
If blacks are outraged by what happened to Garner, then stop voting for Democrats. It's Democrats who made it a "crime" in the first place. And it's Democrats who need a police state to enforce their social engineering experiments.
"But a government that can choke a man to death on video for selling cigarettes"
ReplyDeleteDoes he seriously believe that the officer intentionally killed Garner for merely selling cigarettes? I am stunned by the muddled thinking of christian leaders regarding incidents such as this and Ferguson.
True. From what I've read, there's no evidence of intent to kill, much less a racial motive.
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