The Liberal Bias Against White Police Officers

Did you hear the sounds of outrage coming from the left when a police officer who was black (a native of Somalia) killed a white woman? 

Neither did I.

Apparently the two year veteran police officer fired his gun while seated in the passenger seat while his partner was talking to the woman who had made a 911 call to report suspected criminal activity near her home.

Common sense tells one it was an accidental shooting and, perhaps, negligent.  [He shot across the front of his fellow police officer seated beside him.  The bullet struck the citizen-complainant standing outside the driver’s side closed door.]

So it was appropriate to give the black police officer the benefit of doubt which was accorded to him by the local (liberal) media.  Unsurprisingly, the Black Lives Matter folks (of “kill the pigs” notoriety) were mute.  

But what if the racial identities had been reversed?  

It’s hard to escape the conclusion that there is a prejudice against police officers who are caucasians.

Note the common practice of the general media to use the police officer’s race (if white) and that of the person shot (if black) as if the racial differences played some role in the event.  

Such a presumption was probably reasonable and warranted in Alabama and Mississippi of fifty years ago.  But now?  And in liberal Minneapolis?

Think of all the civil rights advances and black assimilation which have occurred in the broader society since the fifties and sixties.  

So how does any other explanation than prejudice against whites (racism, if you like) explain a prejudgment against white police officers involved in shootings?  It’s as if white leftists who jump to such conclusions are embarrassed by their being caucasian.  How sick and sad is that?