Do you know who Zach Hammond is? You should.

[Are_grits_groceries]

He is a 19-year-old white teenager from Seneca SC who was shot in the back when the police tried to arrest him on a pot bust. He was eating ice cream with a friend at a fast food establishment. They won't release the dash cam video.

His parents have gotten some support from the community but many have shut them out. They probably view it as a bad kid that deserved it.

The Black Lives Matter group and others from Clemson University have been tweeting and standing with the Hammond family. The All Lives Matter bunch could care less apparently.

Zach Hammond isn't more important than the black men and women that have been killed. He is another piece in the mosaic of victims of police out of control. I have said and I believe that those that command the forces of 'order' serve one thing. They serve themselves and use that 'order' as an excuse. Blacks and other people of color bear the brunt of it. Make no mistake though. The police will come after you too if you are perceived as a threat and/or they run out of other scapegoats.
Stand up now!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/06/an-unarmed-white-teen-was-shot-dead-by-police-his-family-asks-where-is-the-outrage/

[steve2470]

2. K&R! nt

[CBGLuthier]

3. Cops are killers of us all. Mostly black, mostly hispanic, but hey they won't hesitate

to murder a white kid either. Cowards with guns and authority coupled with chickenshit DAs and juries.

[freedom fighter jh]

4. A separate system of justice is needed for police.

With some exceptions, prosecutors won't enforce on police, because prosecutors depend on police. The lesson to police is that they can get away with anything.

There needs to be a separate line of authority, a special prosecutor, for police.

[Ed Suspicious]

7. I like your idea very much.

[freedom fighter jh]

8. Thank you, Ed. nt

[d_legendary1]

10. What they need to do is break up the fraternal order of police

and prosecutors. Too many good cops turning a blind eye to bad cops and that needs to stop. Likewise prosecutors need stop being pals with some of these cops. Their duty should be to the law, not each other.

[lostnfound]

11. Justice, AND an analytical oversight group to encourage professionalism and root cause identificatio

There's a range of problems from hardened racism to subconscious prejudice to the proliferation of guns (AND gun lookalikes) to failure to follow procedures o corruption and coverup and "throw-down" weapons.

The NTSB investigates every airplane accident to identify whether they be pilot error, human factors, mechanical problems, situational awareness, weather, whatever, so that the industry can improve.

Today cops get a free pass the matter how egregious the circumstances. If ALL shootings (from careless mistakes to outright homicide) are thoroughly investigated, maybe it would start to raise the bar and the dialog, above the current absurd situation where police PR guys tell reporters the same tired lies -- "he was reaching for his waistband, she became superhuman and tried to take my gun" which get printed as if they were corroborated rather than hearsay.

[fasttense]

5. First they came for the Jews but I wasn't Jewish so I didn't care

Then they came for me.

[secondwind]

6. K&R for Zach :-(

[Overseas]

9. K&R.