I’m not trying to get political up in here, but all wouldn’t be well with my soul if I didn’t say that a major injustice was served on a chilled platter by Judge Timothy Wilson when he acquitted Jason Stockley for the murder of Anthony Lamar Smith Friday morning. Let me take a moment to send my condolences to the Smith family. Hearing that news must have been like losing him all over again. As far as the protests go, I will quote the words of Cori Bush at the Monday night protest when hundreds of folks stood in the pouring rain outside of The Justice Center to show their solidarity with the Smith family – and the dozens of protesters who have been arrested while keeping to what must be their theme, “If we don’t get no justice, y’all don’t get no peace.”
Bush said, “You are saving lives with your activism. Because of all of you out here, the next time a cop says, ‘I’m going to kill this mother f-er [abbreviation of the f-word expletive],’ they will think about what might happen in this city if they pull the trigger.”
