The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

Once more, the "civil rights" leadership fans the flames of racsim.

Cincinnati has had some issues with race relations, including a fairly ugly riot a few years back. As is often the case, the trouble is sparked by blacks being killed or allegedly abused by police officers. A few years ago, Timothy Thomas, a guy with a long rap sheet, was running from cops and ended up in a confusing situation in a dark alley and got shot & killed. More recently, a gentlemen by the name of Nathaniel Jones, an grossly obese man who was hopped up on PCP, cocaine and embalming fluid, who died in a struggle with six cops. The video clearly shows him trying to attack the officers and at one point attemtping to grab one of the officer's guns. It took six officers to subdue him and while on his stomach he died from suffocation. Not that the officers were choking him or otherwise causing the suffocation, but rather a combination of huge amounts of drugs, being incredibly fat and having heart disease led to his death (plus the exertion of a long struggle no doubt).

Now the NAACP has come out and claimed that a crime has taken place and demanding changes. No mention of the man being stoned out of his gourd. No mention of him refusing to comply with officers and trying to attack them and grab their guns. No mention of this man's criminal record and his heart disease. No mention of all reports indicating the police had done nothing wrong. All we hear about is how the police used excessive force in subduing a huge man who was stoked on PCP.

Perhaps the focus should be less on the police and more on why people like Nathaniel Jones are committing crimes? The NAACP complains that not enough is done to curb crime in balck neighborhoods, and yet sues the police whenever a criminal is killed by police. Maybe they should try working WITH the police instead of AGAINST them.