The case of the beat down of an accused child molester in Philadelphia has forced certain operatives from behind the corner that they usually throw rocks from and then return behind for protection.
Dr Marc Lamont Hill - a member of the "Black Prof" blog and a frequent guest on "The O'Reilly Factor" has came out of his corner.
Typically Dr Hill takes the "moral high ground" when it comes to judging the indiscretions of various authority figures - the Police, the CIA, Corportations, etc.
Today we have an occasion by which Dr Hill had to render judgment upon "the People".
This time he recognized the humanity of the individual to express emotions and frustration.
I suspect that Dr. Hill also realizes that he is unable to hold these individuals accountable because they have no entity by which they can be held accountable as a collective.
This is a key flaw and contradiction in the theory of one Dr Marc Lamont Hill.
Just let a White community come across a Black male who has just broken into a store and stole a flat screen television. I will allow the results to play through your head....................
PHILADELPHIA - A dozen neighbors were so outraged by the brutal rape of an 11-year-old girl that they gave chase to a suspect and beat him, holding him until police arrived. Two of them were honored with an $11,500 police union reward only days before DNA proved the mob's instincts may have been right: Jose Carrasquillo was charged Wednesday with the attack.
Hailed by their community as heroes, none of the neighbors are being charged. But police officials, acknowledging the fine line between praise and prosecution, warned against vigilante justice in general.
Indeed, 25 years after Bernie Goetz spawned a nationwide debate on vigilantism, the case shows how police, prosecutors and the public struggle with whether to punish otherwise law-abiding citizens who take the law into their own hands, often violently.
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