Philadelphia police officer Shane Seiber was laid to rest on Tuesday, less than two weeks after he was allegedly shot and killed by Eric Lewis while answering a call in West Philadelphia on Oct. 10, shortly before 1 a.m. Lewis, a black man, allegedly revealed later that one of the reasons he shot Seiber — and his partner, who survived the attack — was that they were white. He allegedly went so far as to tell a black female police officer that if she had been the one who responded, he wouldn’t have shot her and instead “would have just had a conversation.”
A black man allegedly shooting and killing a police officer because he was white seems like a pretty serious hate crime that should send shockwaves throughout the country. It should also have generated widespread condemnation, with elected officials and politicians condemning such violent racial bigotry by a black man. After all, that is the kind of reaction that frequently occurs when a police officer — especially a white police officer — shoots and kills a black man. Yet when it is the reverse, politicians and elected officials are conspicuously and disgracefully silent. In such instances, Democrats are too afraid to identify racist black male murderers as racists.
