There have been a lot of shootings in
the news. Not the kind we're very much used to involving criminals
killing innocent people or each other, but police killing citizens.
For the last two years this seems to have increased quite a bit and
since a lot of the guys being killed are my race it doesn't make me
feel all that comfortable around the police. One of the latest that
occurred was the third in five days involving a 27 year old Air Force
veteran in Atlanta, Georgia named Anthony Hill who was shot and
killed by an officer while nude in broad daylight.
Hill wanted to be a musician and had
spoken of his mental illness in various tweets and on his Facebook.
Some of what he wrote was “I am thankful to be something other than
normal. I dont fight my circumstance, I embrace it. I love myself.
Always #IamBipolar” as well as “The media continues to paint the
same horrific picture of mentally affected people but I have to tell
you, there are so many shades in between the extremes.” One of his
last messages said “The key think to remember is,
#blacklivesmatter, ABSOLUTELY, but not moreso than any other life.”
