Posted on 05/16/2015 4:01:42 AM PDT by marthemaria
During a press conference earlier this week explaining the circumstances under which local police shot a suspect they were pursuing, Sheriff Ed Mattingly of Bardstown, Kentucky, expressed relief that the man who was shot was white.
"We are glad that he is white, and we shouldn't have to be worried about that. And we do not want any backlash or violence in this community because people have been misinformed," Mattingly said.
Mattingly's comments have themselves caused backlash in what otherwise might have been a comparatively uncontroversial incident: Unlike high-profile cases like the killings of Walter Scott and Eric Garner — neither of whom were engaged in serious criminal activities or attempted to harm police officers — the shooting victim in this case, John Kennedy Fenwick, was allegedly involved in a violent pursuit using a stolen vehicle. Fenwick is expected to survive his injuries. Mattingly's quoted comments begin around the 12:15 mark in the video below.
The epitome of where we are.
“I’m glad he is white”
Harm, destruction, slander, ridicule whatever is OK if ‘he is white’
Yes, the point I get is that whites won’t burn the place down on behalf of a criminal, or use it as an excuse to steal.
Obama and tribe is not amused it slows the chances of the police departments to fall under the rule of the feds.
Did he say he didn’t want a Blacklash?
A lot of the situation is a result of whites being too divisive among themselves to unite politically, compared to the various minorities marching in lockstep for generations now.
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