Not at all. It's asking for equal treatment. Ideally, both situations are treated as crime and race doesn't figure in, but if you're going to scream about race in one situation, it's tremendously disingenuous to ignore it in the other just because it doesn't fit Mike's chosen narrative.
Um, no - again you demonstrate a lack of appreciation of context.
One situation involves thugs who belong in prison murdering someone, because they are not nice people.
The other involves someone who (arguably) racially profiled someone, followed them, pursued them, and killed them.
The situational context is different - just as it is different if there is a hold-up where a gay person is the criminal and a straight person is shot and killed, compared to a group waiting outside a gay bar to grab a person and chain them to the back to drag them to death. No serious minded person would equate the two.
My 'chosen narrative' is fairly simple: the power structure in America was built on the backs of slaves who were legally excluded from 'all men are created equal' almost totally until the late 1960s (i.e. until the lifetime of most here), and continue to be excluded and victimized to a large extent in every walk of life. These are a simple reality - racism continues to be a major issue in our country, and has gotten worse fueled by the racist arm of the right wing.
Therefore there will not always be 'equal treatment' when looking at these things. When you have a police system that has a 'random stop' policy that somehow managed to stop 95% black people, you cannot argue that the system is random or fair - you simply cannot.
