But isn’t the part of Jackson’s flying in and then straight out again the nub of what i was asking?
I found plenty of stories about the Tanya Haggerty and Robert Russ shootings, but not one of them so far has mentioned Jackson’s alleged turnaround.
Personally, i believe that Jackson has over-reacted to incidents in the past, playing the race card in cases where it wasn’t warranted. The Chicago dance club fire of early 2003 was a good example.
But the fact is that police shootings of black citizens have been a problem in many American cities, and i see no problem with Jackson addressing the issue. And saying that he turned around and flew straight out again, leaving the whole issue behind, after hearing that one of the cops was black, is quite a damning assertion, and one that goes straight to the heart of Jackson’s credibility. I’d like to know whether or not it actually happened.