Archive for June 2nd, 2009
I Would Like to Live in a City Where the Police Just Police
It could be any large city in America, any day of the week, any week of the year. Last week it was New York City. A white police officer, Andrew Dunton, shot (six times, mind you) and killed a black police officer, Omar Edwards, who had just gone off duty. The white cop’s excuse: It was an armed black man. Last time I checked, any police officer who’d just gone off duty would have been – well – armed.
