By Selwyn Duke
John Geer had white privilege.
The privilege of being shot by police and having his death largely ignored by the media, authorities, and activists.
“Hands up, don’t shoot!” It has become a meme and rallying cry for all the wrong reasons and all the wrong people. But it was never a more accurate sound-bite description of events than in the Geer case. The hapless 46-year-old was standing in the doorway of his Fairfax, Virginia, home with his hands at head level when shot by an officer with known “anger issues” who has been subject to four internal-affairs investigations. Geer had committed no crime that day — even the policeman who killed him admits that. Nor was he drunk, armed, or posing a threat at the time.
Oh, and the above is corroborated by six witnesses — four of whom are police officers.
In short, indications are that Geer was murdered that fateful day, August 29, 2013. Yet his case had been largely ignored for 18 months. In fact, the officer who shot him is still on the Fairfax County police force.
Read the rest here.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Orwell was quite prescient, was he not?
Posted by: Philip France | March 14, 2015 at 02:32 PM