I've been thinking: are the police militarised?

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Both Michael Brown and Freddy Grey, as Rowan said, resisted arrest. Dylan Roof did not. His treatment during his arrest had nothing to do with race. Lee Boyd Malvo, the DC Sniper, was given the exact same treatment. Nobody made a big racial fuss about that one, even though that was a black guy, racially motivated, killing people of a different race. He was labeled as a criminal and a murderer. The fact that he was racist was generally left out of the media coverage (because apparently racism is only immoral if you're white?) It doesn't matter that he's racist, just as it doesn't matter if Dylan Roof is racist. He's a criminal and a murderer. If Dylan Roof killed a group of white people, the situation wouldn't be any better, because nine people would still be dead at the hands of a psychopath with a gun. Though the media wouldn't have covered it nearly as in depth, because to them, white people are expendable, and their deaths don't buy ratings.

If your point is that people of different races are treated differently within society, under the law, they are not. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and recognized by the United States, declares that everybody has equal rights under the law. If a cop shot a black kid for wearing headphones, then that officer will be investigated on homicide charges, and proper legal action will be taken against him to determine a fair and just punishment.

Show us any case where a white person was murdered in cold blood in a situation where they had broken no laws, and had no weapons.

There are plenty of incidents of unarmed white people being gunned down by police. The media doesn't cover it, because nobody cares about white people.