Many police killings of unarmed black men are not to protect, but to punish and make an example [View all]

[StarfishSaver]

Most of the cases we see stem from an angry or irrationally frightened cop reacting with deadly force to a black person not complying with their orders. They usually don't involve any real threat to the officer or any bystanders. They come about because the officer is angry that the person didn't do exactly as they told or, God forbid, tried to run away.

In other words, these black people are all too often executed - frequently after being abused, degraded, and tortured - by police, not because they pose any danger to them, but because they are not obedient in the officer's eyes and need to be taught a lesson - and so do other uppity black people who don't show sufficient respect to law enforcement.

There is a much shorter way to describe what this is.

Lynching.