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I'm not going to share the video of the murder of #PatrickHarmon. If you need to see more death, you can find it easily enough.
His death is unusual mostly in that the film quality was high, and you can see the whole period leading up to it. It's wholly unambiguous.
A Salt Lake City cop simply shot him three times in the back for running away. There was no instant in which the cop was in any danger.
The police have understood that, especially with people of color, most especially with Black men, they have the power of life and death.
They have the right to execute someone on the spot for failing to comply with their instructions. Or for any other reason.
This wasn't a "questionable shoot," this wasn't even slightly ambiguous. It was simple manslaughter – murder without forethought.
I just watched some son of a bitch kill a man in cold blood, and I have no reason to believe he will face any real consequences for it.
Black lives *matter*. Patrick Harmon's life mattered – and it was ripped away from him by a killer on the streets.
And until his life matters every drop as much as mine, this country will not be what it claims to be: the land of the free.
I want the same justice for Patrick Harmon as if it had been me, or my family, or my friends, that had been killed like that.
I want the same justice for Patrick Harmon as if it had been a *cop* that had been killed like that.
And if the police, and prosecutors, and people of the United States can't cut that – then they don't deserve those names. //
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