David Simon, best known as the creator of the TV show, The Wire, has published an open letter to the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, where for the past several days community members have been protesting the police shooting of a (black) unarmed young man, Michael Brown. It's a brilliant composition, calling out the decision of the police force to hide the identity of the shooter as the cowardly, hypocritical move that it is.
"If Ferguson police can’t protect one of their own — a fellow officer who
is armed, who is allied with an entire department of armed comrades,
who are themselves buttressed by their jurisdiction’s prosecutorial arm,
who have the full weight of the law at hand in support of that officer —
then how in hell are they going to protect me when I go down to the
courthouse and testify? How can they ask me, an ordinary citizen with
no armament, alliance or authority, to stand up in open court and be
identified?"
The whole thing deserves a read.
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