What Is Legal May Not Be Moral

Atty Ben Crump and a political analyst point to the law for Grand Jury failure to hold police responsible for Breonna Taylor's death. They have echoed Martin Luther King's words.* Unfortunately, the law often fails. It took Ruth Bader Ginsburg years to carefully chip away at antiquated and short-sighted gender and civil rights laws. And politics and police are closely connected. We have serious problems here in the United States: economic as well as racial. Those of us of all colors who are not wealthy know how quickly the law and police can ruin. This is not new, just increasingly worse for many once middle class who are now poor. And for people of color, this has gone on for years. Now it's filmed, as Will Smith said. I wrote about this in my June 6 post: how quickly my mother's black friends and my own have been stopped for years by police. Of course, we're angry enough to protest. But even our protests are being turned against us, and unjust hearings explained away by politicians' convoluted rhetoric. *Letter From Birmingham Jail