On Monday, North Carolina jury deadlocked over the question of Officer Michael Slager's guilt in the shooting of an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, in the back.

The media, of course, went insane.

They claimed that this demonstrated that cops could never be convicted.

They suggested the mistrial was a result of deep-seated American racism.

The only reason that Slager wasn't convicted in this trial was one holdout juror. Eleven other jurors were ready to convict for murder. The prosecutor in this case immediately declared her intention to retry the case as well. She should. Video shows the officer shooting Scott in the back, then sauntering over to Scott's prone body, handcuffing him and dropping an object near the body. That was a taser. The prosecutor argued, quote, his first instinct after the shots were fired and and he cuffs of dead Walter Scott was to stage the scene. Slager then lied to the cops about the circumstances surrounding the shooting. He claimed that Scott had charged him, and he killed Scott in defense of his own life. Now, thanks to one juror, we're supposed to believe that all of America is systemically racist, even though the governor of South Carolina and Nikki Haley issued a statement explaining, quote, it is my understanding that there will be as quickly as possible a new trial

where the Scott family and all of South Carolina will hopefully receive the closure of verdict

brings. Instead of recognizing that the vast majority of Americans are disgusted with this mistrial

and that the justice system has yet to even come to a real conclusion on Slager, the media instead use the Slager case to show America's racist and the system's evil.

They point to the fact that virtually no officers are convicted for murder,

which makes sense, since most officer-involved shootings occur in disputed circumstances with criminals,

and it's difficult to prove a murder case against officers absent clear and convincing evidence.

Statistically speaking, 78 officers have been prosecuted for killings in the United States since 2005. Just under 30 were, in fact, convicted of manslaughter. One was convicted of murder. But that just shows that Americans hate black folks, according to the Huffington Post. they said, quote, black people have shown time and time again that even when they're unarmed or fleeing or completely innocent and a danger to no one, the people sworn to serve and protect can still kill them. And even when almost everyone agrees the evidence shows the officer in the wrong, the system may end up disagreeing. The system didn't disagree here. One juror did. The system allows for one juror to scuttle a death verdict. That doesn't prove that the system is racist

any more than the O.J. Simpson trial's idiotic verdict prove the system was racist against white

people. But the media are still searching for a narrative that shows white Americans attempting

to clamp down on black Americans. They really couldn't be happier about this verdict, which

they believe justifies their suspicions. But most of America is rightly outrage.

And Slater will face trial again.

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