Police brass and public officials are always talking about how people in the Black community don't talk to police after a murder or shooting. When asked, Sean Ellis volunteered that he had been at CVS when John Mulligan was killed, but didn't see anything.

For that, he lost 22 years of his life to wrongful imprisonment. People in the Black community don't automatically assume police are there to protect people and solve crimes. In Ellis' case, and God knows how many others, they were there to pin charges on an innocent man.

There was a boatload of malfeasance from the cops who investigated Mulligan's murder. How many will be brought to justice for their misdeeds?

Really, though, they act like there's no logic to Black folk clamming up when cops come around. Law-abiding Black folks ought to be more afraid of the cops than the shooters.