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Parents Of White Teen Ask “Where’s The Outrage” After Being Killed By An Officer


You think you’ve heard this story before. A young, unarmed man is gunned down by police, activists are outraged — the only difference with this scenario is that the young man is not black, he’s white.

Nineteen-year-old Zachary Hammond was on a date July 26 when he was fatally shot twice by a police officer while at the back parking lot of a Hardee’s fast food restaurant.

According to the Seneca Police Department, the officer in question was conducting a drug investigation, and shot Hammond in self-defence:

He was a uniformed officer, he was in a marked vehicle, was out of his vehicle on foot approaching the suspect vehicle — weapon drawn given it was a narcotics type violation.

Officials say Hammond accidentally drove his car towards a police officer in an attempt to evade a stop, and because the car was coming at an angle, shots entered the driver’s side window.

 

  More than a week after Hammond’s death, his family’s attorney says race is almost certainly playing a role in the disconcerting silence. Unlike the victims in the highest-profile police shootings over the past year — in cities from Ferguson and Cleveland to North Charleston and Cincinnati — Hammond was white.

“It’s sad, but I think the reason is, unfortunately, the media and our government officials have treated the death of an unarmed white teenager differently than they would have if this were a death of an unarmed black teen,” Bland told The Washington Post this week. “The hypocrisy that has been shown toward this is really disconcerting.”

He added: “The issue should never be what is the color of  the victim. The issue should be: Why was an unarmed teen gunned down in a situation where deadly force was not even justified?”

H/T WP, UniLad

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