The Murder of Daniel Shaver
I am not sure how I stumbled across this story but it is once again another one that I have absolutely no idea how I ever missed. Maybe over the years we have all just been numbed by stories of police shootings that we do not even notice them; maybe, despite the fact that it was said to make national attention, it really did not as much as we would like to think. Police shootings are not a new thing, nor were they in 2016 when this one occurred. But, let's be fair in stating that most of the high profile cases we hear about are cases that involve a white officer and a black victim. Later I will get into studies that have been done and maybe show you why this is true. However, before we jump into this case I have a few things I want to delve into first. If you are a regular reader of this blog you may, or may not, have noticed that very few of the blogs mention the race of anyone involved. I have only done so when it was relevant to the story and off the top of my head...