People like @Eugene_Robinson of the Washington Post are making this out to be directly about the police conduct. I don't see any police conduct issue here. So Obama gets in office and his surrogates like Al Sharpton want to address police-community relations. And this is good, we definitely need to address that. However, when they scan the country for examples, they come up with these kinds of cases, get the White House involved in them, and it turns out not to be helpful. Because in both Martin's and Brown's cases their own violent behavior contributing directly to the use of force against them, in other words, they created cases of self-defense. How this helps police relations is hard to see. It is also not at all clear that the solution is more black cops. Cops should be selected and led based on competence, NOT race. And it appears the White House, as part of their plan, intends to say, well, maybe the cop had justification in this case, but the real issue is we'll use the Department of Justice to begin a federal takeover of local law enforcement, just like the takeover of health care, education, etc. What this is is an abuse of the concept of civil rights. The civil rights movement did not come from MLK or voting rights for blacks in the South in the 1960s. It came in the 70s, the 1770s, the American Revolution and then the Bill of Rights, which represented a kind of enlightenment about government power. That government actually COULD be a force for good. And that's the system. It is basically a good system. The problem is not cops, its social inequality. And so all government institutions, including the courts, end up being enforcers of social inequality. We can't overcome this except by working as a whole. I have yet to see Barack Obama, Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar or Eric Holder address this at all. By seeking out alleged wrongs by Zimmerman and by Wilson, which were not substantiated by the facts, they have used the wrong approach. They have the power to make the whole community work together but instead they are dividing and attacking, and creating scapegoats. The problem is that a lot of young people actually believe Holder, Sharpton and the others, who grab the mike. It is a pitiful waste of what could have been an opportunity for dialogue.