Have guns, will shoot.

It was bound to happen again, and it did. Last night police shot a 23 year old man in a black neighborhood of St Louis, Missouri, not far from Ferguson where 10 days back a white policeman shot dead 18 year old, unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown for jaywalking. The population of Ferguson is 67% black but the administration, including the police is almost all white. When people of the town started protesting with the slogan " Hands up, don't shoot ", referring to the fact that Brown was shot when he had his arms up in the air, the police responded with the usual brutality. We Indians were outraged when Devyani Khobragade and, especially, Krittika Biswas were treated with extreme brutality but we have to be thankful that they were not shot dead. Last night the young man was said to have been behaving erratically with a knife in his hand. St Louis white Police Chief, Sam Dotson III said," If you're the family of a police officer and somebody approaches you within three feet with a knife, I think you have the right to defend yourself. So I think it certainly is reasonable that an officer has an expectation to go home at night." Absolutely. But has the great white Chief heard of pepper spray, mace, rubber bullets, truncheons, tasers, or even a rugby tackle by several officers? Israeli takes greater care with Palestinians than the US police do with their own citizens. Perhaps the Chief should see the ongoing Kabaddi league on Indian TV. Rauf Muhammad, a retired building contractor, said," People are fed up with getting this kind of treatment only because of the pigment of our skin. Do you think they would kill a white person like this? It could have been handled with a taser or a nightstick. They could have shot him in the leg. Crippled him. He's going to fall." But why go to such trouble to save a nigger, just shoot him. Michael Brown was shot 3 times in his right arm, once at the bottom right of his throat and once just above his right eye. Anyone with a severe injury will instinctively tend to adopt a fetal posture. The last bullet entered through the top of the skull. People are agitating for justice. Will the white police officer be punished? Not a hope. The prosecutor will present such a weak case that it will be laughed out of court, as happened with Trayvon Martin's killing by the white George Zimmerman in Florida in July 2013. Why has the US become a nation of baboons, forever killing, whether abroad or at home? Is it because first Bush in Iraq and now Obama with his drones have slaughtered thousands and are being seen as role models? Or is it because the election of a black president has released whites from any qualms about racism? The US should stop worrying about terrorists from abroad. There are plenty of killers at home.