In view of my old house in that neighborhood was a bridge where a young black mother was shot to death by the police. She made some mistakes in that encounter but she made no mistakes that merited a death sentence. The cops made mistakes and ended up putting themselves in a situation of perceived danger.

Every year when the memorial for her death gets put up by the local black community you can be sure that every black parent points it out to their kid. "Here's where they shot Kendra, stay away from the cops, don't talk to the cops, don't call the cops." I know of no comparable place where a normal (not crazy or engaged in criminal activity) white person was gunned down for no good reason. If white kids ask about the memorial they probably are told that something tragic happened there years ago and not a whole lot more.

What the argument was about and the fact that it was resolved by with a gun I can't explain or justify in any way but the aftermath of the shooting seems to be powerfully tied up in a society and police force that treats Blacks to an alternate form of justice.

I've called the police about problems at the bar that involved a black person. When the cops come in one will come to the bar and the other has posted up, hand on her gun over watching my black patrons. That shit doesn't happen when the call has been about a white person.

I'm sure stuff like that is the tip of the iceberg and the inequities that everyone of my black patrons form the neighborhood has experienced at the hands of the police would make my blood boil.