:( :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: God Damn It...
Relatives bid farewell to Akai Gurley, man fatally shot by NYPD rookie, during emotional funeral service in BrooklynThe emotional scene inside the Brown Memorial Baptist Church Saturday opened the funeral service for the 28-year-old who lost his life in a pitch-black public housing complex stairwell in East New York, Brooklyn. More than 150 mourners including several pols attended the funeral.
BY Dale W. Eisinger , Rich Schapiro - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, December 6, 2014, 8:04 PM
Gurley’s younger brother, Malachi Palmer, tried to read a poem to the mass of mourners, but it was largely unintelligible. Palmer couldn’t stop crying.
= new reply since forum marked as read
they were being sarcastic myself, otherwise my bad in agreeing.
Then my bad. It didn't read that way to me. I hope it was.
Esp. in context of the entire reply.
It can be hard sometimes to tell sarcasm, and I have misread more than one post the wrong way.
This one, tho, "sounded" like bitter sarcasm to me.
My bad and I take back my (whatever I said) 
Thank you
Sometimes I have to ask, politely, how a person meant something they said.
No one seems to mind clarifying their comment, at least in my experience.
Clearly I should have used the little
thingy.
My point in making the comment is the absolutely insane twists and turns made in these situations to rationalize the irrational. In almost all cases, the police defense starts with the phrase "I was afraid that..." and by the time they're done, there's a big black demon in the story.
And there's always the apologist's refrain "but it wasn't about race". Bull f'ing chit. As I said in another thread, you think cops are doing to drop into some white suburb with a bunch of flash-bangs and assault rifles. Hell no.
All I was saying, and obviously doing it poorly, is that the apologist refrain in this case will be "Oh My...this couldn't have been about race...the stairwell was pitch black so the policeman may have been shooting a white guy". (right - in the projects...a white guy).
Sooooooo.....I should have put the sarcasm thingy in place. Nothing could justify this murder.
Sorry for the consternation.
(((Malachi))) 
Love the comfort being shown by the adult in support.
Didn't think the first thing I'd venture into on DU this morning would put me in tears, but it did.
all unnecessary tears because the american system of policing is out of control, mean, vicious and yes, racist. 
Despite that people are being murdered in the streets left and right, not a single thing will be done about American gun laws. Not one damn thing. Some guy allegedly sneaks a bomb aboard an airplane, or in a water bottle, the TSA can't get their new toys fast enough. But thanks to the National Rifle Association and ALEC, we're closer to legalized murder than we are to anything else. Fuck this shit.
Seriously fuck ALEC, fuck the National Rifle Association, fuck the Kochs and the Waltons, fuck it all.
To watch these families grieve. It's heartbreaking to watch as they, time and again, receive not only no justice, but watch as they have to hear how the murderers of their loved ones are vindicated, excused, even congratulated for their cowardice.
Just heartbreaking.
Sign carried by people of color:
We're all just one bullet away from a hashtag.
Thanks for the post, Willy T.
So many people and so many families.
This just plain has to stop.
DAMN. It's a beautiful and poignant and painful portrait, this photo. Sad as hell. WHY do we put our fellow Americans through this - again and again and again - and yet again??? WHY? WHY do they have to walk this path of never-ending tears?
Just DAMN.
These cops are out of control and every person of color has to be on guard at all times or else they will fall victim to these vicious pig. Something needs to be done.
RIP Malachi.
