Tag: Omar Suleiman

On the second anniversary of the shootings, he looks back at what has happened since – and ahead at where we need to go next. The officers that were killed that day were in no way responsible for those who wore the same uniforms as them when they killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Philando’s 4-year old daughter was in the car that day and shouted, “I don’t want you to get shooted,” at her mother. Take the example of the murder of unarmed black men by police officers in comparison to the murder of police officers. Community organizations raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for their families. Black deaths haven’t mattered as much to America because black lives never have. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. It’s why most people don’t even know the name of the terrorist in Austin. So what then of our pain? And at some point, that human pain needs to translate to humane policy.