Indianapolis isn't a ‘Ferguson situation’ waiting to happen; ALL of America is a 'Ferguson situation' waiting to happen

Perhaps in another dimension right now, calls of "Justice for Major Davis Jr." are being shouted throughout the land, his death at the hands of white Indianapolis Metro Police Department Officer Perry Renn the catalyst for a summer of black insurrection/violence/riots. 

Instead, in our world, Officer Renn was gunned down by Major Davis Jr. and his AK-47 on July 8. 

A full month before the incident in Ferguson, Missouri between Officer Darren Wilson and 6'4, 300 lbs. 18-year-old Michael "Swisher Sweet" Brown. 

Had the July 8 incident between Officer Renn and Major Davis in Indianapolis followed the trajectory of Officer Wilson and Michael Brown in Ferguson, the black insurrection would have started a full month earlier

Had Officer Perry Renn gotten "out of his car" to confront Major Davis Jr. at the black family picnic in East Indianapolis, and survived the confrontation while Davis perished, it's axiomatic the negro insurrection on St. Louis doorstep would have kicked off in Indy. 

For in the words of the family of Major Davis Jr. in Indianapolis we see a mentality that unites blacks nationwide: from Ferguson to Sanford, Florida  from Oakland to the Oval Office and the Attorney General of the Department of Justice... [Murder suspect’s family speaks out about shooting, WISHTV.com, 7-6-14]:

The family of Major Davis Jr., the man accused of killing Officer Perry Renn, is speaking out about the shooting. His aunt, cousins and his children’s grandmother all talked to 24-Hour News 8 on Sunday afternoon. 

The family is still struggling to accept that Davis Jr. could be a part of something like this. He is a father with four children, ages 10 and under.  His family has had a long, tense history with Indianapolis police officers. 

“You don’t know what he been through with IMPD. We do. He’s scarred for life,” said his children’s grandmother, Pam Moornan. 

 The family did say it is sorry for Officer Renn’s family, but they said the tragedy may have been avoided if Officer Renn would’ve stayed at his car since he could see Davis had a gun.

Speculation is pointless, but the altercation between white IMPD Officer Renn and career black criminal Major Davis and the potential for it having kicked off a Ferguson-style black insurrection shows just how fractious race relations our in America. 

Like the Californians living near the San Andreas Fault-line who keep preparing for the "big-one," that massive earthquake science confirms is coming, it's time to realize the utter incompatibility between the white and black races in America is inevitably heading to a tectonic shift in relations the country - as we know it - will likely never recover from. 

The fragile nature of white police dealing with trigger happy black suspects (and the latter's community quickly rallying in their defense if something goes wrong in this encounter) is a reminder maintaining law and order, as established by the historical white majority of America, is impossible in a multiracial setting. 

Impossible. 

And judging by a recent forum on violence in Indianapolis, it's obvious the tremors are already being felt by those willing to realize there are far more frightening scenarios than the Richter Scale registered a 10. [Forum on violence reveals distrust of police,  Indy Star, 10-20-14]:

The idea for the evening was to try to answer a question that probably was not answerable: Is Indy a Ferguson waiting to happen?

In a crowd of more than 300 people at Martin University, there were answers in both directions. No, some said, Indianapolis has better police-community relations than the troubled St. Louis-area community. Yes, others argued, there’s an explosive cache of distrust between the police and the public in Indianapolis just waiting for a spark.

What was clear from an evening that hit on the question and often meandered far from it, was that — at least among this nearly all-black crowd — there’s a deep vein of distrust of police.

Several audience members spoke of knowing and trusting individual officers, but also of having doubts about whether justice is a reasonable expectation for black citizens.

One woman, an Eastside grandmother, brought the crowd to its loudest crescendo of applause when she said the police force is out of control in its treatment of young black men. She said she is wary of police.

“We don’t tell our black sons the same things that white women tell their sons,” said LeTava Mabilijengo. To the panel of law enforcement officials that included Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Rick Hite and Marion County Sheriff John Layton, she said defiantly, “If you come for my children, you better understand what you are coming for.”

There was an acknowledgement from law enforcement agencies that they have work to do.

“We own some of that,” said Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter.

Communities across the country have been asking whether they, too, could become the next Ferguson after the Missouri community was catapulted into the national consciousness in August.

Its notoriety came after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. The circumstances of the incident are still muddled, with some witnesses saying Michael Brown, 18, was shot after he reached inside the police car and attacked officer Darren Wilson. Others said Brown appeared to be surrendering when Wilson fired the fatal shots.

The incident prompted protests, including some that turned into violent episodes of looting. Police responded with tear gas and arrests and a show of military hardware that provoked questions about the militarization of police forces.

Above all, Ferguson has become a shorthand for what can happen when the citizenry, particularly those from a racial minority, are so distrustful of police that such an incident sets off passions.

Monday night’s forum at Martin seemed to forget Ferguson for long stretches as the discussion turned to problems in Indianapolis. Some questioned the lack of public investment in crime hot zones. Some raised the importance of fathers being present as a salve for social ills. Some talked of the need for mentors to felons, both those in prison and those just released.

At times, Hite seemed as if he were trying to recruit to the force some of the young black men who took a microphone in hand and voiced frustration with police officers who were too old and too out of touch.

“I need young people who think the way you do,” Hite told one of them. “Do you know how hard it is to recruit people of color?”

Yet, among some, even that plea seemed incendiary. One woman talked about the frequency of young black men being killed by police across the country. And questioned why any young black man would want to join the police force. She said she didn’t blame the people of Ferguson for standing up to the police.

“I applaud those brothers and sisters in Ferguson,” she said. “They are holding their feet to the fire.”

Officer Renn is dead, his family deprived of ever holding his hand or hugging him again.

Because of chance encounter with a "Gentle Giant" in Ferguson, Officer Wilson's career in law enforcement is in serious jeopardy, as is the future livability of the city of Ferguson itself.

The dynamics of the Officer Wilson/Michael Brown encounter, coupled with the situation only a month earlier in Indianapolis, are proof of the inherent instability of the American Experiment

That the outcome of the Officer Renn/Major Davis encounter easily could have resulted in a similar scenario as is unfolding in Ferguson and the greater St. Louis metropolitan-area shows these incidents are not chance encounters; they clearly are an indicator of the inherent instability of the American experiment and the unnatural manner in which we must continue to believe a peaceful resolution to this failed endeavor in forced equality will ever manifest.

 It's not just that Indianapolis is a Ferguson waiting to happen; it's that wherever the black population has progressed to a demographic point (between 10 and 25 percent is sufficient numbers to have black agitators in both the clergy and public offices represented in the community) where the police are primarily dealing with 911 calls that lead them into direct contact with the black community a "Ferguson Scenario" could unfold.

No, could is the wrong word

Will.

It will unfold.

Looking at pictures of the tragically deceased Officer Renn and the persecuted Officer Wilson, it's obvious you see in their faces the hopes and dreams of every white police officer in America: one wrong encounter with a representative of the black community, and they will in one or the others shoes.

This horrible truth speaks to the failure of the American Experiment in ignoring the enormous implications of The Bell Curve and all those evil white men who dared once pass laws trying to protect the civilization whites had built (and only whites can sustain and pass on to a new generation for maintaining).