With Liberty and Justice for All
"...With liberty and justice for all," that is how the Pledge of Allegiance ends. We have all said it so many times that it is by rote. Unfortunately, events of the last several months have shown that we as a society are far from that ideal. In late February Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down in the street in Georgia by two white men. His only crime was that he went for a run, something that I have done thousands of times. His killers were close associates of the local district attorney, so the D.A. called it justifiable on the grounds that they were supposedly attempting a citizens arrest. This would have stood had not a video of the event gone public. Justice for Arbery demands that his killers be brought to trial. Fortunately, the video did go public creating such a public outcry that charges were filed against the killers. On the other hand it should not have taken a video going public for charges to be filed. Just over a week ago, in New York City a black man (Chri