The Deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner; What It Has Done to This Country
I have a list that I keep close by that I add names of victims or case on so that I can go back and do the research on them to blog about them. Often times when I search the name I do not recall what the case is about, such was the case a few minutes ago. I picked a name off my list, Mary Hawkes and when I searched I remembered it was a case where a young woman was murder by the police. Of course with all the media lately it made me think of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. The difference here obviously is that Mary was a woman and she was white. However, I realized that I had not sat down and really discussed these cases and that being the author of a true crime blog and seemingly choosing, even if not consciously, to ignore these cases was not proper. The only real reason that I have "bulked" them together is mainly because the media has. I have, for the most part, left my opinion about these cases off of social media and really h...