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Why No Focus on Black Female Supervising Cop in Garner Case: Equality?
By Attorney Rees Lloyd
December 25, 2014
NewsWithViews.com
Why is there so little attention given in the Garner case in New York by the media, and in remarks by government officials from Obama on down, all of whom are otherwise so exercised about racial inequality, about the fact that the supervising sergeant at the Garner take-down was a black female, a key fact which is rarely even mentioned let alone focused upon despite its essentiality?
Why this apparent “unequal” treatment, compared with how the supervising officer, Sgt. Stacy Keen, was treated in the infamous Rodney King case in Los Angeles?
That is, I remember being interviewed years ago during the Rodney King case and riots in Los Angeles by the late broadcast legend George Putnam on his Original Talkback Show in L.A. (now hosted by his longtime producer and sidekick, Chuck Wilder).
I was interviewed as a civil rights attorney about the vilification of Sgt. Stacy Keen by the media, and demands by liberals, race hustlers, and rioters for Keen to be criminally prosecuted, all apparently happy to toss away his and other cops’ presumption of innocence in the name, hypocritically, of “equality.”
The inequality of the treatment of Sgt. Stacy Keen, white male supervising officer at the scene in the Rodney King case, and Sgt. Kizzy Adoni, the black female supervising officer at the scene in the Garner case, is as clear as “black and white.”
Sgt. Stacy Keen was vilified although he never punched, kicked, or clubbed King. Keen in fact used a “taser” on the out-of-control King rather than have him beat him down or shot down.
However, the taser had no effect on King. That is some indication of what the cops were dealing with when trying to arrest the huge, out-of-control, drugged-up, convicted felon Rodney King. So, Sgt. Keen tried a second taser before resorting to batons and “swarming” Rodney King as officers are trained to do.
Again, the second taser didn’t stop King, who, like Garner, was resisting arresst. King, of course, was desperate not to be arrested because of his criminal record, which might mean a return to prison. It was only after that failure of the second taser to stop King that Keen instructed subordinates to swarm King and use their batons to control King.
The famous video showing batons being used on Rodney King were edited by the media to show the beating, but not the preceding conduct of King that necessitated the use of those batons. Television news edited the tape to eliminate King’s conduct. Spike Lee did the same, beginning his movie heroically iconicizing Black Muslim Malcolm X with the Rodney King video–stripped of King’s acts resisting arrest prior to use of the batons.
The world was thus informed by the media through artful dishonest editing of the video that out-of-control white cops were furiously beating with clubs a black man concerning but a traffic offense.
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