| | I can remember back in the 60's when Huey Newton and the Oakland Black Panthers were very much in the news. I was in a restaurant in San Francisco, and saw Newton and two henchmen enter the place and goosestep like Nazis down the length of the restaurant and up the stairs to the second level. What a spectacle! Newton, who had a reputation for torturing prostitutes with cigarettes, was eventually shot by a small-time drug dealer.
This latest Black Panther threat to kill whites and their babies, which I hope is dealt with before it becomes a reality, reminds me of radical Islamists who are willing to kill Christians and their families for "blasphemy." Did anyone see a story about that recently?
Holder refuses to prosecute these Black-Panther lunatics, but is quite willing to "review" the recent verdict against Johannes Mehserle, a white cop, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for inadvertently shooting Oscar Grant, a young black man, in the attempt to restrain him.
Mobs rioted and looted stores in downtown Oakland when they heard the verdict; they wanted Mehserle convicted of murder instead of involuntary manslaughter. The jury returned the lesser charge, because they believed Mehserle's story that he thought he had hold of his Taser instead of his gun when he pulled the trigger.
It is difficult to believe that Mehserle intended to murder Grant, since he had no reason to shoot him; he was merely trying to restrain Grant and, in any case, was surrounded by several other cops and numerous witnesses. The involuntary manslaughter verdict made perfect sense under the circumstances.
Yet Eric Holder and the Justice Department have decided to review the case for any evidence of "racism," although when there is blatant and explicit black racism, Holder can't be bothered. Apparently, his concern is that there were no blacks on the Mehserle jury. Yet the defendant was a cop, for whom a "jury of his peers" would have been other police officers, not other blacks. Oscar Grant wasn't on trial; Mehserle was.
Even so, did the judge allow cops to serve on the jury? He did not, whereas there was no such prohibition against blacks serving on it. However, there were only 12 blacks in a pool of 100 potential jurors, so it shouldn't be too surprising that none of them made the final cut. The resulting composition included seven whites, four Hispanics and one East Indian. There were eight women and four men. Yet Eric Holder and the Justice Department felt the need to review the case for evidence of bigotry, while ignoring Black Panther threats to kill whites. That apparently does not constitute a threat of bigotry worth investigating.
(Edited by William Dwyer on 7/10, 5:55pm)
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