Barbarian observes:
Some New Yorkers feared police will make them pay for the slayings committed by a cop-hating lunatic.
“If two cops got shot, what’s gonna happen to the neighborhood?” asked Lafiette Wells, 41, who lives in the Tompkins Houses in Brooklyn, where the officers were executed.
“I just don’t want my son to come out the door and just be stopped because he’s black or he happens to be walking behind a police car and they’re all nervous and itchy-fingered,” Wells said. “My nerves are shot just thinking about it.”
Pretending the problem doesn't exist won't help.
So...the enacting of extremely brutal revenge against all white people that has been taking place is justifiable and goes unpunished or unchallenged
No. That's half of the problem. This lunatic killed two officers who apparently had no role in the earlier killing. And even if they had, murder wasn't the way to deal with it. Hence, the condemnation of the murders by everyone from the president on down.
whilst the brutal execution of two police officers should somehow not generate a sense of vulnerability?
That's the point. Black New Yorkers are fearful that the police will take it out on them, just because they are black. Whether that's true or not, it feeds the same sense of vulnerability and rage you see from the police right now.
Instead of whooping up the hate, it's time to back down, and to turn our backs on those who are preaching it.