No doubt tragic, but if it was some gang bangers- they would have shot him too. I don't think that those police intentionally set out to kill him for no reason. He was bashing into their car and buildings- and supposedly there was an altercation prior to the incident.
Sharpton and Jackson piss me off because they always play the race card and the uneducated/spongeminded followers proceed and protest often with misinformation. This is a police matter. They play people because that is all that they have now. The lynchings are over- this is the 21st century.
I just don't see it. I don't see acts of racism except in articles with their name in them. Don't get me wrong- I see the Negro College Fund (I guess you apparently can't say "Negro" anymore- so whatever they call it.)-and my tax money flying to defend my city and others from the NAACP because a quota isn't met. But the people that hire and fire/go to school/walk the streets/teach the children all grew up with shared bathrooms, Different Strokes, shared workplaces, the Cosbys, fuggin Rerun and Rodge and damn Michael Jackson. It's a Different World....
Everyone in this country was decended from an immigrant -most whites came over as servants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_labour
http://www.immigrantships.net/v3/180...511104_02.html
So I'm not buying it anymore and I'm am vocal about it. (rant off )
BTW: The officers involved are white, hispanic and black.