The city of Chicago has released a video that shows a white police officer shooting a 17-year-old African-American young man named Laquan McDonald 16 times. Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez says that this video is “graphic”, “violent” and “chilling”, and it is expected to provoke a very strong emotional reaction from Chicago’s very large African-American community. Over the past few years, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray have all become household names because of the way that they died, and now it looks like Laquan McDonald’s name will be added to that list. But the situation in Chicago is potentially even more volatile what we witnessed in either Ferguson or Baltimore. More than a million African-Americans live in the Chicago metropolitan area, and the crime rate in the city has already been skyrocketing. In fact, it is being projected that Chicago’s murder rate will increase by 20 percent in 2015. This is a city that is always living on the edge of chaos, and now the video of Laquan McDonald’s death could be the spark that sets Chicago ablaze.
Works Cited
Michael Snyder. “Warning: If You Live Anywhere Near Chicago, Brace Yourself For Massive Rioting.” End of the American Dream. . (2015): . . http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/warning-if-you-live-anywhere-near-chicago-brace-yourself-for-massive-rioting
The Guardian. “Chicago dashcam video shows police killing of Laquan McDonald – video .” The Guardian. . (2015): . . http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/24/chicago-officials-release-video-showing-police-killing-of-laquan-mcdonald-video
The policeman was wrong! Very, very wrong. I think the other policemen there should have stopped him from shooting after the first shot.
To say we live in times of extreme stress is an understatement. People say and do things they wouldn’t normally do in certain situations, especially in stressful situations like this one. Based on the video alone it doesn’t appear the man with the knife made any type of movement toward the officer(s) in an attempt to attack them, so it appears the shooting of this young man was not justified. We don’t know the extenuating circumstances that led up to this point though, and this is important information that cannot be conveyed via video evidence. That said, it appears to me this video is being used by the governing authorities in Chicago, and nationally, for the express purpose of provoking, “…a very emotional reaction from Chicago’s very large African-American community.”, as well as from everyone else who sees it. One needs to be aware of how people’s emotions are being manipulated and controlled by the media, and not just the “news” media, consciously and subconsciously. Most are unaware. This is being done for the express purposes of those who have deployed various surveillance technologies already, and who seek to introduce new surveillance technologies to further enslave humanity. It’s all about mastering the human domain! Hey, Nate, you figure it out yet?
“…expected to provoke a very strong emotional reaction from Chicago’s very large African-American community.”? It appears this is being done for the express purpose of provoking a very strong emotional reaction, just like a lot of events going on right now are.