Stamping Out Social Injustice

Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice are three names recently added to a list of highly disconcerting deaths — unarmed African Americans killed by police. Protestors throughout the country are calling for change over these cases and others. We applaud the peaceful protests — the vigils such as the one held in Chestertown Friday, Dec. 5 — and deplore those that led to looting and attacks on innocent people.

“We're here tonight because senseless acts of violence continue to happen. Every face we see on the news is a father who will never walk his daughter down the aisle, a pre-school teacher who will never get to see her class graduate, a boyfriend who will never get to propose to the love of his life, a mother who will never have the opportunity to provide for her family and a child who will never get to start their life,” said Kyle "Kotic Couture" Wilson, one of the organizers of the Chestertown vigil.

When Paul Tue, of the Bayside HOYAS, said Chestertown is one step away from being Ferguson, Mo., where Brown was killed, he was right. We may be a small town, but the Internet has given media outlets a global reach. Do a Google search for images of "Frosty arrested" and you'll see how some of our local police officers last made the national news.
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