Whiteness is a free pass, ain’t it?
This police story died a quick death because no one else did (Raw Story):
A Jan. 6 defendant opened fire on cops who had been sent to check on him hours after he was told he’d been charged with participating in the storming of the Capitol, the Department of Justice said in a news release.
Nathan Donald Pelham, 40, of Greenville, Texas, was taken into custody after a standoff that lasted nearly three hours. He was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm in connection with the April 12 incident.
No injuries were reported in connection with the shootings.
The previous day he had been charged with four misdemeanor counts in connection with the attack on the Capitol. An FBI agent told him of the charges hours before the shooting and told him he had been given until April 17 to surrender.
Pelham was facing misdemeanor charges for a) Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; b) Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; c) Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building or Grounds; and d) Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Building.
Over that, Pelham allegedly fired on sheriff’s deputies from inside his house, then walked out onto his porch an hour later and allegedly fired more shots, threatening harm to police and risking death for himself. Police drove off after midnight. He was arrested later, although news accounts disagree on how or when.
Dan Froomkin and Spocko are as flabbergasted as I am.
Where’s the standard-issue “I felt threatened” excuses? Ah, the police didn’t kill anyone.
Is it whiteness alone or is there a secret hand signal that the brothers exchange between gunshots? I’m not criticizing the deputies for driving away and not calling in a SWAT team to gun down Pelham on the spot. Avoiding bloodshed was the mature, sensible thing to do. But does anyone believe the cops would have allowed a Black man who fired on them to leave in anything other than a body bag?