The Power is on the Side of the Killers, Not Their Victims | Frontpagemag

The Power is on the Side of the Killers, Not Their Victims | Frontpagemag

• What Rep. Cori Bush’s racist defense of a black man’s killer tells us about power.

"On a cold day in a Missouri winter, Mary Bratcher never came home to the trailer park where the single mother lived with her three children. 

She was working that night as a manager at a Casey’s General Store in Columbia helping out Mable Scruggs, another single mother, making ends meet by picking up a night shift. 

Neither of the two women would make it home again.
An hour before midnight, Ernest Lee Johnson came in after a binge in which he bought three rocks of crack cocaine, traded one of them for a gun, put on a mask and came to rob Casey’s.
The plan had been to lock the employees in the back and have one of them open the safe. 

But then Johnson beat all three of the Casey's employees to death.

• He stabbed Mary Bratcher repeatedly through her hand with a screwdriver, likely defensive wounds as she fought the monster for her life. 
• Then he smashed her over the head with a claw hammer again and again. Johnson appeared to be aiming for her face, striking her mouth and nose, to disfigure her while killing her. 
• He beat Mabel to death in the same vicious way.

That was 1994.

Like every monster, Johnson never had any shortage of defenders...Read all!!!!!!!!!!