You’re a ‘glass is half empty’ kind of guy, aren’t you?
I wouldn’t look at it that way, that it is a glass half-empty (or full). That statement was precisely the thing that stuck out for me as well.
But as faulty and wrong as I find that single statement, it doesn’t invalidate everything he wrote.
And, he is not the only one to make this kind of statement that seems to want to level everything out at the beginning of it, to assume a degree of moral equivalency.
I saw a thread started by a well known Freeper who I don’t consider to be a squishy small “c” conservative, but he did exactly the same thing as Ben Watson did.
The bottom line is, this is not a situation of moral equivalency where a cop and a black citizen met in a random situation where both were minding their own business, obeying the laws and not bothering anyone, and the situation somehow got out of hand.
This is a situation where a thug stole goods from a store, intimidated the shopkeeper, and walked down the middle of a busy thoroughfare on the yellow line with his stolen goods.
The “I wasn’t there, I don’t know what happened any more or any less than anyone else” mindset is just stupid. We have enough factual information to determine that the dead guy was a perp thug, the cop was doing what cops are supposed to do, and the race baiters, white guilt liberals, and media have been both deliberately or ignorantly (or both) supporting the wrong version of events that portray this as an injustice.
Ben Watson made a mistake to make that statement, but it doesn’t invalidate the entire thing.