Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

The latest outrage over excessive use of police force is a case in Memphis of a black man detained in a bogus traffic stop who died after being beaten by police.

This did not, thankfully, set off riots like the George Floyd case a few years, and I expect this is mostly because the police officers who perpetrated the attack were themselves black. You can see how this complicates the preferred narrative.

Not that it stops some people from trying. There have been several attempts to claim that this is really about white supremacy anyway, because, you know, it’s just the system, man. A New York Times report gamely tries to sum up this argument: “problems of race and policing are a function of an entrenched police culture of aggression and dehumanization of black people more than of interpersonal racism. It is the system and the tactics that foster racism and violence, they say, rather than the specific racial identities of officers.”

Do you find that convincing? I didn’t think so.