It's really poor quality and the person recording expresses his or her (honestly, I can't tell) view on the situation with very explicit vocabulary but I don't think it was necessary to shoot and kill the man. The rest of this story is still being investigated but it's sounding a lot like Rodney King and the LA Riots. Wednesday night angry residents began protesting against what they believe to be injustice. One man was shot standing outside his house, not participating in the riots. What I find to be absolutely absurd is that a police officer that was there tried to help the victim but with all the hate and anger filled inside of people they threw beer bottles at the officer despite the fact that he was trying to save a life. Many of the protesters believe the police are racist because this was not the first but the third time in three months that an incident like this has happened in Salinas, and each victim happened to be Mexican. An online petition has been started and possibly a lawsuit against the Salinas Police Department for racist judgment and unnecessary lethal force.
When slavery was introduced what it essentially did was open Pandora's Box to racism. It's not something that you can ever get rid of completely, it's always going to be around because some people do have a strong belief and as we've discussed earlier this year you can't change someones morals just because they don't fit with your own. Now whether or not these killings were fueled by racism I don't know you can judge that yourself but do remember that Salinas is an are dominantly occupied by Hispanics/Latinos/Mexicans.
As of now, we are discussing the term of race in class, whether if it was if racism still exists, or if its a term unspoken of. We have come far to where discrimination is at a low level, but still there.
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