article_snippet.sent: (CNN)A white police officer claims white police officer feared for white police officer life and is justified in killing an unarmed black man.
article_snippet.sent: A police chief supports the police officer, who is ultimately exonerated, and a predominantly black community seethes with rage because it knows that an injustice was done.
article_snippet.sent: Cop gets away with Cop.
article_snippet.sent: Routine stops for walking in the middle of the street or driving with a broken taillight -- these should not result in anyone's death.
article_snippet.sent: But time and again it ends with a black man dead in the street and the community has no recourse.
article_snippet.sent: Being pulled over for driving while black is a well-known phenomenon, which I discuss in my "Critical Race Theory" casebook.
article_snippet.sent: Racial profiling by Slager could have been the catalyst for Scott being pulled over in the first place.
article_snippet.sent: Strange things can happen in a jury room.
article_snippet.sent: Recall how the Rodney King videotape allowed a Simi Valley, California, jury to acquit the Los Angeles police officers, but a federal jury later convicted the officers of violating King's civil rights.