>>21 Actually, no, it wouldn't be a suicide. Just this morning, the investigation found that when the officers put him in the van, they did not buckle him in. They were completely neglectful of standard procedure there, resulting in his death. Once in that van, they were responsible for him completely and they failed to do their job properly, so in that case they are responsible for his death and should go to jail for not going through procedure and inadvertently causing Freddie Gray's death. So they are responsible and should go to jail, but was it full on murder like a lot of people say? No, it's still a terrible situation and they did do wrong, but as far as the evidence shows, it was not a cold blooded killing.
>>19 While I haven't really heard anyone say that Eric Garner
"deserved" to die because of those allegations, I will say that if anyone has then they are stupid. No one, reglardless of race, deserves to die for selling "loosies" or any such trivial things, especially if there wasn't any evidence to support it.
The Eric Garner case really does showcase police brutallity and corruption though, the medical examiner did rule his death as a homicide (which isn't inherently a criminal death or even an intentional death,) they still failed to charge the police officer who killed him, who in all honestly, was probablly actually racially motivated as I doubt he would have done this to a white person. And even if it wasn't intentional, he still took the life of another human being and should have been punished accordingly.
I do, however, think that saying if the kid who was killed in Arizona had been had been black there would have been more emphasis on the drugs doesn't really work, he was not black after all, so we have no way of knowing if that would have happened or not. And even if that had been the case, more often than not more emphasis on drugs in certain cases comes from whether or not that person was from a bad area where drug use is known to run rampant and/or was impoverished. Unfortunately, most of the people who fit into those categories are black, which I think is the real problem of race in the united states. Blacks get profiled because these poor conditions often lead to them being more likely to commit violent crime. Police often focus more on violent crime, mostly because other kinds of crimes that more wealthy and privleged people commit is hard to track and often doesn't hurt people as much as violent crime. This correlates with why police brutality would be a bigger problem for blacks than whites, the systems of education, wealth, and job opportunity are not in their favor, and that is wrong and should be talked about and dealt with, because this is the root of the problem. That's also why I don't think there's any kind of "War on blacks" like some like to say, if anything it's more a "War on the impoverished", which just just so happens to be mostly black, making it seem like a inherently racial issue, when it is actually the conditions that cause this to be that are the inherently racial issues. Another thing to consider, police often have quotas, they HAVE to make a certain amount of arrests over a period of time. And the messe fact of the matter is that is a lot easier to arrest the poor minority than to convict the rich white majority. So don't get me wrong, I do think police brutality is a racial problem, but only really because the issues that cause in are racial in nature.
Of note about the Tamir and Arizona cases also, is that these really come down to the individuals involved. As you said, the Arizona kid was high off his rockers and made bad decisions. With Tamir, Loehmann, the officer who killed him, had been previously found to be unfit for duty (http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cleveland-tamir-rice-timothy-loehmann-20141203-story.html). He should have been out there. He was actually in the proccess of being fired when he resigned from the Independance PD before going to work for the Cleveland PD. He was known to be horrible at gun trainning and was often emotionally unstable at Indpependance, and the Cleveland PD didn't even check his personnel file during backround check, which should be a HUGE no no. That shows a big tear in the system, when the police fail to check and see if the people they bring on to the job are actually fit to be in that job. I also don't doubt that there were some cover ups involving his personnel profile as well. I believe that in this case there should too have been heavy punishment, but I don't think it was a matter of a rascist cop killing a black kid because he was black, it's a case of a mentally unstable cop killing an black kid because the cop was mentally unstable and should not have been a police officer in the first place.
And yeah, it would make sense that if Hispanics, Whites, Asians and so on felt indignated for much the same reasons that they would protest and make their voices heard, but you can only feel indignated if you know there is a problem. But take for instance these cases: (http://rt.com/usa/235607-washington-police-shot-hispanic-man/) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/israel-hernandez-taser_n_4919108.html) (http://www.mprnews.org/story/2009/05/28/fonglee_verdict)
I seriously doubt you, and know for a fact that most people don't, even know or have previouisly heard of these cases. If people don't know, they aren't going to do anything about it. The media doesn't see these occurences as being worthy of being frontline news. They don't care, they just want a good story that they think people will want to want. And even when these cases are heard of, and somthing is done about them, they still are not made publicly known to the rest of the nation. Antonio Zambrano-Montes' death sparked protests, yet they didn't make national headlines and neither did the death that sparked them. That is why they cannot do the same, because the media's agenda is not allowing them to know about any of this.
