Murder and Windows (Ashton Garcia 2nd)

As many of you know, Freddie Gray was murdered recently. Caesar Goodson (what an ironic last name) turned himself in for Gray's murder, and was charged on 5 accounts of murder. After this, a protester took a traffic cone and smashed the window of a police car. Murder, a smashed window. Most would see the terrible and horrific murder of an innocent man be far worse than a protester smashing a police car window. Unfortunately, Baltimore sees the opposite. The man who smashed the  window was given a higher bail than Goodson. Although Goodson turned himself in after influence by his family (which they now regret), he deserves to have a fair bail, that strongly exceeds the window smasher's. Somehow, the Baltimore gov. believed that the window smasher deserved a higher bail than the murderer charged with 5 accounts of murder and manslaughter...? This, ladies and gentlemen, gives you another example of injustice and inequality.

Alright seriously. A new name comes up almost every week: "_________ was shot and brutally beaten/murdered by ______, a police officer in _________". This seems to be a constant headline, and seeing the videos and pictures on the news reminds me of movies such as Selma that show how black people were treated mainly by police, and what has changed? Honestly, almost nothing. Before the Civil Rights movement, freaking lynching was LEGAL! And common especially in the South! Even some of our national leaders were racist, like Woodrow Wilson, who would say racist jokes to the Senate/Congress and hinted that he believed in white supremacy, admiringly talking about the KKK. Anyway, the Civil Rights Movement happened decades ago, but black people specifically are suffering (and don't forget Native Americans and Latinos, and pretty much every ethnicity that isn't white), being murdered, and are seen as unequal to state (and even federal) government. Of course we're always going to have those people who grew up with a racist family, making them racist, and sadly that's something that we can't 100% get rid off. But it's a whole new story when you go as far as become a police officer, only to find yourself killing innocent "minorities". This has been going on for decades, centuries, and it's still so prominent today. I can only hope that one day we will actually be a country that believes in freedom and equality of all people.