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Published: 08/13/2014 at 8:07 PM
While the media look hard for ways to rationalize the irrational pillaging of greater St. Louis over the shooting death of Michael Brown, they continue to ignore the death in October of African-American dental hygienist Miriam Carey.
So too do the nation’s race hustlers. The question at hand is why.
Last month, the U.S. Attorney’s office cleared two federal employees – one a Secret Service agent, the other Capitol Police officer – in the fatal shooting of Carey after a bizarre driving incident around the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
After firing at least 18 shots at the unarmed and deeply confused Carey, the officers discovered that she had her one-year-old daughter with her in a car seat. Miraculously, the little girl was unharmed.
What is intriguing about the Washington Post’s latest report on the incident is that the only time it used the word “black” was to describe the color of Carey’s Infiniti.
Neither the reporter of the July 10 story nor the editorial board writer who followed up with
a piece on July 13 mentioned her race. In no story that I could find was the race or even the names of the two officers mentioned.
That is probably as it should be, and the exoneration of the officers on civil rights charges seems understandable as well, even if the actions of the officers are not easily understood.
Under relevant criminal civil rights laws, federal prosecutors must establish that an officer’s use of force was excessive and that the officer “willfully deprived an individual of a constitutional right.” And they must do so beyond a reasonable doubt.
The evidence was not there to indict, nor was there any pressure from the black grievance industry, or BGI, to manufacture evidence. Its honchos likely passed on this case because it was Obama’s White House. It is hard to believe they would have been so quiet had Bush been the occupant.
What is painfully evident, though, is that neither the BGI nor the media nor the Justice Department cut any such slack for local police officers who find themselves in a confrontation with a black suspect – a phenomenon that happens a thousand times a day across Americ
