Emmett Hill, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown... What do these men have in common? They were murdered, and the grand juries who investigated their deaths decided that there was no probable cause, no good reason for their murderers to be tried in court.
What happened to Magna Carta? Or the English Bill of Rights? Not to mention the Declaration of Independence or American Constitution. Not even a king is above the law? How about your average neighborhood police officer?
At this moment, the Pentagon is selling/giving away military equipment to police departments all over America-- assault rifles, grenade launchers, camouflage clothes, etc. Who is it for? No one is fighting a war, are they?
No justice, no peace. If it means keeping one person from pulling the trigger because of racism, if it means causing one person to realize as I have that it isn't colour or race that defines us, but choices, if it means saving one innocent person's life, then let's fight for justice. Not with guns and knives, but with words.
"If anyone kills a person, it is as if he killed all people. If anyone saves a person, it is as if he saved all people."
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