liberals and media are all up in arms (pun intended) about the tragic killing of trayvon martin, so much so to the point where even the new black panther party has offered a $10k reward for the capture of george zimmerman. But I ask you liberals, where were you when Manuel Loggins was murdered by an Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy in the parking lot of San Clemente High School.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/10/local/la-me-marine-shot-20120210
The Orange County Sheriff's Deputy that shot Marine Sgt. Loggins, Darren Sandberg, is white, but since the initial report about the shooting had Deputy Sandberg claiming self defense citing Sgt Loggins 'irrational' behavior which included crashing through a gate and attempting to leave the scene. Within a day or so of the story becoming public, the story had undergone a critical revision: The Sheriff’s Office claimed that Loggins had to be shot in the interests of “
the perceived safety of the children.” Sgt Loggins was unarmed with his two daughters, but a white man feared for his safety, so he shot at a SUV driving away from him and killed Sgt Loggins. no uproar or outcry of racism.
So zealous were the officers for the safety of two young girls who had just seen their father murdered in front of them that the department took them into custody held them incommunicado for thirteen hours while the official narrative was being worked out.
In the words of the family’s attorney, “They just incarcerated them.”
Deputy Sandberg is back on patrol with no criminal charges filed and no administrative punishment whatsoever. His union, displaying its customary gift for arrogant self-preoccupation, insists Loggins was entirely to blame. “It is heartbreaking that Manuel Loggins created a situation that put his children in danger and ultimately cost him his life,” oozed police union spokesperson Tom Dominguez said. "It is unfortunate that his actions put his own children into immediate danger and resulted in his death."
Because agents of the liberals beloved state, police officers, said that it's the victims fault...then it's the victims fault. Neither Louis Farrakhan nor Al Sharpton reached out to the Loggins family, most likely because going up against the police union would only result in public backlash. As a gesture of solidarity with Trayvon, the Miami Heat basketball team was photographed wearing hooded sweatshirts, the “suspicious” attire the teenager was wearing when he was chased down and shot by George Zimmerman. The Sacramento Kings abstained from a similar symbolic display of sympathy for Manuel Loggins. Asked by a reporter to comment about the Trayvon Martin killing, Barack Obama, who pointed out is he had a son, the young man might resemble Trayvon. The President has yet to be asked to comment about the murder of Manuel Loggins – who is one of two black Marines to be murdered by police within the space of three months.
Last November 19, 68-year-old
Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. was slaughtered by police at his apartment in White Plains, New York. Chamberlain, an elderly man who suffered from a heart condition and several other ailments, was not a criminal suspect. He had inadvertently triggered a medical alert, which resulted in a visit by paramedics. The police, unfortunately, responded as well, and they quickly displayed their infallible gift for making matters worse.
Chamberlain ordered the police to leave. That was a lawful order the police are required to obey. They didn’t. Instead, the dozen officers who had formed a thugscrum outside Chamberlain’s door taunted and mocked the elderly man, eventually breaking down the door and invading his home.
Once inside, the police were confronted by a terrified old man who – as documented in video recovered from a Taser – was clad in boxer shorts, with his hands at his side. This dreadful specter was enough to trigger the “Officer Safety” reflex – practically anything will – and the heroes in blue shot him with a Taser and a beanbag gun before gunning him down.
The original story was that Chamberlain “came at the officers” with a butcher knife and – I’m not kidding – a hatchet. His son points out that his father’s heart was so weak that he couldn’t walk more than forty feet without resting.
The initial account is difficult to reconcile with the footage captured by the Taser and security cameras. Furthermore, even if the old man had lunged at the cops, they had the duty to retreat: They had no legal or moral right to be in the home, and Chamberlain had the legal and moral right to evict them by force.
Long after the incident, the police rationalized that the invasion was necessary because they weren’t sure whether “anybody else inside was in danger.” This is a matter that could have been cleared up through use of an obscure piece of technology called a telephone, a remarkable instrument that could have been used to contact either Mr. Chamberlain or his son, who didn’t live far away. But this would have deprived the armored adolescents on the police force of an opportunity to bust down a door and impose themselves on someone who couldn’t fight back.
In the case of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., there is material evidence of racism at work: Recordings of the standoff captured racial epithets, including the “n-word,” hurled at the harmless old man by some of the officers involved in murdering him just a few minutes later. Chamberlain's son and his lawyers have reviewed the recordings,
but the public has not been permitted to see them.
Nevertheless, the Tolerance Police – for some reason -- haven’t made the slaughter of Kenneth Chamberlain a cause celebre.
So another case of white men killing an unarmed black man and barely a whisper from the liberals.
One much-remarked detail in the killing of Trayvon Martin is the fact that the supposedly suspicious teenager was “armed” with Skittles and a can of iced tea. This summons memories of
Jordan Miles, an 18-year-old from Pittsburgh who was nearly beaten to death on the street near his grandmother’s house two years ago.
His assailants claimed that Miles struck them as “suspicious” because he fled at their approach, and that they feared for their lives when he appeared to be armed. It turns out that his concealed “weapon” was a bottle of Mountain Dew. Miles, who stands 5’6” and weighs about 160 pounds, was swarmed by three large adult males, who slugged him, kicked him, and beat him with a club improvised by a tree branch. The attackers were police officers, who weren’t prosecuted or subjected to administrative punishment. Every week – perhaps every day – innocent young black men are beaten and killed by armed strangers who act with impunity, and often in circumstances quite similar to those in which Trayvon Martin was killed. The perpetrators of those assaults are police officers.
So what about it liberals? what makes you focus on this particular case of an apparent racially motivated murder for weeks on end, yet barely days for any of the others??????
