Police killing unarmed black men - Virulent racism

FIFTY years ago last month, when Martin Luther King led thousands of non-violent protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, the civil rights movement was born out of a vicious police onslaught on the demonstrators amid what began as a campaign for votes for African Americans. 

Fifty years on, a majority of the American people have re-elected Barak Obama, a black man, as their president. But the police remain in the eye of the storm over a string of killings of unarmed black men.

Were it not for the fact that a video was made by a witness of the latest shooting, it would probably be just another statistic.