Those gentlemen and ladies of BLM have been cheered, encouraged and coddled by our ‘news’ media and our ‘intellectuals’ for decades, to believe that they, the ‘oppressed’, are morally superior to those of a lighter hue, and that their lynch-mob behavior is ‘justice’. They’re performing just like trained doggies, growling for the camera.

Take a look at today’s Instapundit, on preference cascades. This is another example. Such cascades can collapse on short notice, and this example is at the head of the line, when the journalists wake up.

Few black women, young children, or elderly (currently, as opposed to in their youth) criminals, of course. The proportion of black men aged 15-45 is where the crime and especially violent crime are concentrated, and our government has refused to collect reliable statistics on this for some years now, but University of Georgia estimates that

…as of 2010, 3 percent of the total U.S. population and 15 percent of the African-American male population have served time in prison. People with felony convictions more broadly account for 8 percent of the overall population and 33 percent of the African-American male population.

Mind you this is just felony convictions and not all crime, and we’re up to 33% of African-American males. Accepting for the sake of argument that estimate is accurate, and that we could actually know the demographic statistics for all crime and not just felonies, how willing are we to bet that criminals are still a minority of black males? It could certainly not be a tiny minority, since considering only felons gets us to 1/3 with almost 1/6 having been incarcerated.

That’s what “over-represented among criminals” refers to. My main point is that despite that over-representation, most black people are neither criminals nor violent criminals.

There are a great many more nice middle class law-abiding black people than there are black criminals. Black people are over-represented among criminals, but the great majority of black people are law-abiding.

I also understand there were anonymous threats made against Penny’s lawyers and the prosecutors. I assume the jurors were threatened as well.

What a can of worms. Thankfully, the jury was courageous enough to ignore the mob. Still, it’s a justice system being driven by racism. NYC is a cesspool.