Dead is dead.
Whether a Black man dies under the knee of a sneering white cop or from a gun of a white cop who said she thought she was firing a Taser, the Black man is still dead.
And while the murder of George Floyd and the shooting death of Daunte Wright, 20, involved completely different circumstances, the gulf between the two fatalities isn’t as wide as a judge made them out to be when she sentenced Wright’s killer to only two years in prison on Friday.
