Walking while white

Unbelievable. No, this is unbelievable, even though it is from the chancellor of UC Berkeley.

Background: A 19-year-old Berkeley student was killed while on a walk. Someone walked up to Seth Smith and shot him in the back of the head.

Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a message to the campus community. Before mentioning “the recent murders of George Floyd … and other Black Americans,” Christ said: “It is important to know that individuals may express their grief differently and we need to respect the different ways people react and support each other in the days and weeks ahead.” 

We are to believe, then, that if someone grieving over the death of Floyd shot Smith as a means of coping with that grief, then the killer’s motive must be the primary concern, not his taking of a life. Law be damned; what was he feeling at the moment?

Seth Smith was white. No arrests have been made. Given Christ’s response, it is more than likely that Smith was shot for walking while white.

Additional story at https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/06/uc-berkeley-chancellor-offers-stunning-response-to-shooting-of-student/