Even if one grants the premise that violence by white police officers against blacks is epidemic, it certainly seems as if the black community is only hurting its own cause by its reaction to this case. It’s one thing for an officer to be found innocent at trial. An acquittal at trial is not really evidence that no crime was committed. Guilty people get acquitted all the time; our system is designed that way. A grand jury failing to indict is quite another thing. Grand jury proceedings are completely one-sided. The defense is not even allowed in the room typically. The prosecution gets to present all of its evidence unchallenged. The goal is to determine if that evidence is sufficient to proceed with a trial. If a grand jury finds that there is insufficient evidence of a crime, that is a much more conclusive finding than an acquittal at trial.
Reflexively lashing out and blaming the white police officer regardless of the facts is a poor way to make the case that police brutality is a problem. A thoughtful response which recognized that the facts of this case did not merit the outrage and anger would lend more credence to the accusations of police brutality where it really exists. When the black community reflexively gets outraged over cases like this, it just damages their credibility in other cases.
As I said last night, "Just once, wouldn't it be shocking if the 'democrat' community were to dissprove the stereo type and not behave as predicted?"
my thoughts exactly. acquittal is ‘not guilty.’ no indictment is ‘innocent’!!