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There is a difference between the cause of a situation and the tactics employed as the situation develops.
In Ferguson, Mo., Michael Brown was not murdered by an MRAP or a grenade launcher. He was murdered by a uniformed man with a gun for the crime of being while black.
Steven M. suggests that the discussion of events in Ferguson is devolving into a discussion of the (admittedly outrageously over-the-top) police tactics after Michael Brown’s death, thereby taking attention away from what caused it. He notes that
Conservatives are starting to frame the debate on policing, and racism is being deemed irrelevant.
Racism informed the tactics, as well as the original crime. Does anyone seriously think that a crowd of white folks protesting the killing of a white kid by that same cop would have been met with a mob of cops with armored vehicles and machine-guns?
The whole shebang is infused with white racism.
