Rice, Taylor, Pannell, Jackson-It Has to End Now!
Tamir Rice photo courtesy of The New York Times Breonna Taylor photo courtesy of The New York Times Phillip Pannell photo courtesy of NBC News Jimmie Lee Jackson photo courtesy of encyclopediaofalabama.org On December 29, 2020, I read on a friend's Facebook page that the officers who shot and killed Tamir Rice in 2014 won't face federal charges. Two weeks ago, I saw in a Good Morning America Instagram post that the officers who had roles in the shooting of Breonna Taylor were fired. Next, I read up about the shooting of Phillip Pannell, a 16 year-old African American who was killed by Teaneck police officer Gary Spath, and Spath was acquitted from charges of manslaughter. And today, I saw on Selma that civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot dead by an Alabama State Trooper on February 26, 1965. It's all wrong that these African Americans, younger and older, got shot and the law enforcement figures that killed them didn't get jailed for it, except for for...