This distrust actually makes it harder to really address black-on-black violence.
In other words, everyone expects violent criminals to exist, and that's obviously tragic and dangerous - but at the very least people shouldn't have to believe that their government-sanctioned public protectors are also dangerous.īut it's not just that police brutality makes people feel less safe. Glover essentially argued that while crime can be shocking (earlier he and Tobin pointed to the murder of a 9-year-old as one example of a horrible local incident), it's also disturbing that black communities are genuinely scared of calling for help when that crime happens, because they're by and large dealing with police forces that disproportionately shoot and kill black Americans. So it becomes a problem when you can't even call 911 and feel like you're safe - to protect you from people that are committing crimes. And the people that are here to serve and protect are a part of that problem. Mike Tobin: Essentially the question he's getting to is why is there not outrage when there's black on black violence.īrendan Glover: Because crime is going to happen. Here's how it played out, as shown in the video above posted by Media Matters: On Tuesday night, Fox News's Mike Tobin put the black-on-black crime question to a protester in Chicago, Brendan Glover, after the release of a video showing the police shooting of Laquan McDonald.
The common defense to criticisms of racial disparities in police use of force takes the form of a question: "But what about black-on-black crime?" The conservative argument is that black people are disproportionately killed by gun violence in their own communities, so perhaps they should worry about that before they worry about what police are doing.
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