David French: ‘Give Cowards No Quarter, In Our Culture Or In Our Courts’

By Micah Rate

In this Thursday, July 19, 2018 image taken from surveillance video released by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, Markeis McGlockton, far left, is shot by Michael Drejka during an altercation in the parking lot of a convenience store in Clearwater, Fla. The family of McGlockton issued an appeal Tuesday, July 24, 2018, through an attorney for the public to put pressure on State Attorney Bernie McCabe to file charges against Drejka, a white man who fatally shot the black father of three last Thursday upon being pushed to the ground outside a convenience store. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Over the years, the country has witnessed several controversial shootings carried out by police officers or armed citizens. After examining the evidence in each case, some were determined to be justified acts of self-defense, while others were horrifying examples of law enforcement abusing their power or armed citizens abusing their Second Amendment right to take a life in cold blood. In some of these cases, people who should now be behind bars are walking free.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, David French, an Iraq veteran, Senior Fellow at the National Review Institute, and Senior Writer at National Review, …Read the Rest

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