Revisiting the Police Murder of Kenneth Brian Walker

by D.Large

Readers familiar with the killings of unarmed individuals in this nation during the past ten years would probably agree the police execution of Kenneth B. Walker in December 2003 resonates as the most violent brutal shooting of a unarmed human being captured on video. The police in the video swarmed over Walker like sharks on a feeding frenzy. As Mr.Walker lay helpless and incapacitated he was killed by two shots to the head after being pulled out a vehicle drug agents mistakenly thought was that of a Florida drug dealer. He was unarmed. There were no drugs and no weapon.

Mr Walker was born July 29,1964 only 27 days after the signing of the now famous Civil Rights Acts document which was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. His generation would be the first that would be free of segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels. Walker's generation would supposedly not be subject to the past blatant abuses of discriminatory practices in employment and segregation in public places such as swimming pools, libraries, and public schools.

Although the Civil Rights Act was intended to make Walker and his generation's lives more tolerable than previous generations his death was reminiscent of the murders of blacks who died under the violent white rage and terrorist acts in burnings and lynchings by the Klu Klux Klan.

Mr. Walker's cold blooded death illustrated the callous inhumanity exhibited by the Klan and replayed by the shooter former police officer David Glisson. Glisson was fired from his position as a result of the shooting but never convicted of any crime. His life continues, he has watched his kids mature, celebrate holidays with family and played team softball in his community.

Kenneth Walker's mother and family were only left with memories and sorrows offered by a  two minute video of the last violent moments of his life.

Walker's death should remind every black person in this nation that the scourge of death still rest upon the race in America. And the killings of unarmed blacks continue today.




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