When I started working on the page listing those who have been murdered by police, I was just planning on listing those who I know have been murdered that I can remember. But then, I decided that it would be worthwhile to go through the list of people killed in September 2016 and see if I can figure out whether they were murdered or whether their killing was justified.

There are a couple of constraints on that idea, and here are my thoughts after nearly completing going through the September list.

The First Lesson

If the dead civilian is found with a gun, there seems to be extremely little information on that shooting. If you google the guy’s name, there will be several articles that come up that were written within a day or two of the death, and then nothing. Nothing. It’s as if no one questions the cops if the guy had a gun.

Liberals don’t like guns, so I think for the most part, they will write off the victim. Conservatives love guns, but apparently they love cops more. Conservatives forget that guns are perfectly legal, and shooting a cop may be justified. If a cop feels threatened, that’s good enough for conservatives.

Here are three examples of several from September 2016 where there is very little information to go on. I don’t know if these guys were murdered or not, because all I have to go on is what the cops say.

• Sadiq Bishara-Abaker Idris
• Jesse Joynt
• Larry Grant Whitehead

Second Lesson

The second lesson is related to the first lesson. I’m sure I’m not the first one to notice that if a person has a gun, or may be involved in a crime, society will forget them, and assume the cops were justified. Cops have noticed this as well.

In those deaths where there is little information to go on, the initial reports of the shooting are the only real information, and it will just say that the officer who fired felt threatened when the person pulled a gun. Maybe that’s true and maybe it’s not but I DON’T BELIEVE A SINGLE WORD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT UTTERS. Sometimes they tell the truth and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes the cop was justified, but there are known instances of police throwing a gun down next to the dead body of their victim.

(By the biblical standard, if the cop drew their gun and pointed it at the person first, the person was justified in drawing their gun and shooting.)

Then, if it was local police, they call in a different (probably state) law enforcement agency to investigate the shooting. The investigating agency is supposed to be impartial, but how is it impartial? It’s cops investigating cops; government investigating government. Even if that weren’t completely bogus, cops are held to an unbiblical, unjust standard of murder.

Conclusion

I can’t go through and investigate every murder in September. We hope the media will do it. We hope the media will act as a government watchdog, but are they? I don’t know. It doesn’t appear to be in many of the instances of police killings.

If there is little information to go on, I have to take the word of the police and the media. Those names can’t go on my list of police murders. But I wonder what percentage of those should be on my list.

My plan going forward is to investigate the local police killings when they occur, because I don’t trust the local media to get off their rear ends and do it. I would encourage you to do the same. Be a government watchdog, whether it’s police abuse or trying to figure out whether there’s waste in the budget.

No matter how you look at it, police murder a lot of people in this country. You need to worry more about the danger posed by cops than that posed by Islam.