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Polic Officer Kills Man Who Killed K-9 - The letters to the editor in the aftermath of this incident are, with I think two exceptions, positively appalling. This isn’t the first time Pittsburgh police have committed brutality against black people in the city burroughs, either.

A Pittsburgh police officer shot and killed a 19-year-old Allentown man who shot and killed a K-9 dog during a confrontation in Mount Oliver last night.

A crowd of angry onlookers, including the victim’s family, quickly gathered at the scene in the 1600 block of Arlington Avenue. Dozens of officers also arrived on the scene, some with K-9 dogs, to help keep the crowd under control.

When the Pittsbrugh Post-Gazette ran coverage of the funeral, angry (bigoted) readers wanted to know why there wasn’t more coverage of Ulf, the K-9 dog’s funeral. Someone wrote on topix.com, “Thank [the cops] for taking out the trash.” Apparently, when a 19-year old black man has a prior criminal record and has a gun, he’s no longer considered human. Because we all know that trained pets are worth more than black people!

More reactions to the shooting death of Justin Jackson

Greenwood Councilman Calls Mississippi State Senator ‘Ole N*gger’ - John Lee, one of the city’s two white Republican councilmen, circulated an email to 15 of his colleagues in which he referred to David Jordan by the racial slur, saying:

“had a long talk after the city council meeting … with David Jordan. The ole n*gger can’t understand why the black’s (sic) continue to shoot one another. I told him he needed to spend less time with the old people at the Voters League and more time with the young people about getting an education.”

One of the email recipients leaked the letter to the press. The other white Republican councilman in Greenwood, John Jennings, continues to defend Lee’s remarks.

Thanks to Jack and Jill Politics for bringing the second story to light.

Not that police don’t taser their fair share of middle-class caucasians, but it seems to me, knowing both Pittsburgh and the pre-supposition of the guilt of African-American men in the city, that the attack of two police officers against a Shawn Hicks, who they tasered three times, once before he woke up from sleep and another after he had shown them identification, that the incident involved racial prejudice.

Read it for yourselves; it’s hard enough to believe as it is. Tony Norman wrote about the incident in his Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column today. It’s entitled, “Tasered at his own home: the Shawn Hicks story.”