Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Crisis in Chicago- Video of white police shooting a black youth 16 times [Analysis of Ensuing Crisis Management]

Pa Ezeana:

Your commentary was on target on all points.

It is time for cool heads to prevail not only
in Chicago but throughout the USA.

Sometimes peaceful protests yield more positive and lasting
results than violent ones. Violent protests grab public attention
briefly and most often results in additional loss of lives and injuries
to the protesters and the the police not to mention that additional
African American  and other minority youths would be arrested, charged with criminal
offenses and saddled with criminal records throughout their lives even if
participating in the protests had been their first exposure to the police.

But for the video which made possible by the dash board camera on a police cruiser
aspects of this case would have been whitewashed or the entire case covered
up altogether.

The accused policeman who pumped 16 bullets into the body of the knife
wielding teenager who was high on PCP most likely had always felt that black lives do not matter.
He couldn't have done worse if he was shooting at a jungle animal during a Safari in Kenya or South Africa.
As far as he was concerned the victim was not human!

There was a total lack of leadership on all fronts in Chicago starting from  Mayor
Rahm Emmanuel downwards to the Chief of Police, State Attorney General and the State Prosecutor
and all those who were involved in the investigation. Instead of focusing on doing the right
thing Rahm Emmanuel and all Chicago city officials were more concerned with damage
control. Rahm Emmanuel's speech was a great disappointment. He showed no hint of outrage
that such a heinous crime had been committed by a police officer in his city which has a huge African-American population without whom
he would never have been elected as Mayor. All he was concerned about
was maintaining peace and ensuring that he would be re-elected when his term in office expires.

The police officers in the case erased
video cameras on several stores in the vicinity of the shooting incident in an attempt to cover their
tracks only to be indicted by the automatic camera on the dashboard of the cruiser driven by one
of their colleagues.

The police department secretly paid a settlement of $5 million dollars to the victim's
family with the hope that the case will just go away or at worst lead to the laying of reduced
charges e.g. manslaughter against the police officer.

Is the life of an African American   worth so much more when he is dead than when he is alive?

Why did it take 14 months to lay charges on such a slam-dunk case?

The USA is not the El Dorado that most Nigerians who live in the country think it is!
Nigeria is a much better place in many respects than the USA.

Bye,

Ola

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From: OLADMEJI ABORISADE <olaaborisade@msn.com>
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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Crisis in Chicago- Video of white police shooting a black youth 16 times [Analysis of Ensuing Crisis Management]

JUST A  FOOTNOTE FROM: OLADIMEJI ABORISADE:      I am not a hunter but I enjoyed rural and farm life at youth.    One gun shot  kills at that time.  Are human skin changed.   Most of the gun shots in America are multiple like that of a West  African man in New York, African American in Florida, North Carolina  and more recently in Chicago.  In all the cases, those who used multiple gun shots were freed.    Is dark or black skin still a pressing problem to humans and law?    If you have views, please feel free to do so. oladimeji aborisade.
 

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:48:27 +0000
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Crisis in Chicago- Video of white police shooting a black youth 16 times [Analysis of Ensuing Crisis Management]
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Date: 25 November 2015 at 02:17
Subject: Crisis in Chicago- Video of white police shooting a black youth 16 times
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Wow. Everyone in Chicago is on edge. Even though the state attorney indicted the policeman on first degree murder charges, blacks want her to resign because it took her 13 months to indict an officer who shot a black youth 16 times. Her motive for the indictment on the eve of the publication of the video of the shooting was to lessen the degree of  the riot that could follow. 

The police chief is under fire because a police board recommended the firing of another policeman who was acquitted in another shooting death by a white policeman of another black. The recommendation was made over 2 months ago, and in an attempt to appease the blacks and avoid a riot after the publication of the video, is now firing the policeman. 

The mayor and the police chief are planning for the worst case scenario but expect the best. The thing is that they don't know what will happen upon the release of the video. Everybody is saying what they are supposed to say. Nobody wants violence. The civic leaders and the religious leaders are preaching peace nonstop. But they really really don't know what will happen. But they will be surprised if no riots followed the video showing. After the riots, if a riot follows, and even a riot does not follow, the blacks will insist on concessions or else you cannot count on these leaders the mayor and police are using next time. Gangsters signs are showing up. 

Leaders should learn from Chicago experience on how to act in the face of impending crisis. In the past, mayors of Chicago would use the police to abuse protesters, as was done in the old south. But blacks vote to determine who governs. It does not matter today that the mayor and the police chief are both white, they are doing their best to stop riots after the release of the video. They are not calling out the troops to massacre the blacks, and the blacks don't care that the police and the guards are called out and armed. I hope Nigeria gets there soon when the knee jerk reaction of Igbo haters is to call out the police and the army to massacre Igbo. 

Ezeana Achusim

Odi-Isaa

Nwa Dim Orioha AKA OnyeUkwu

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