At 3:51 in the morning on July 24, someone called Austin 911 to report a young man with a gun in a parking lot near Baden Lane. Four minutes later, surveillance cameras picked up Anthoneil Williams II walking into the park at 10110 Baden Lane in northeast Austin. He was seventeen. He sat down on a low wall beside the playground. Nobody else was in the park. He stayed there for the better part of seven minutes, in the dark, in July, in Texas.
Officers arrived. At 4:02, three of them opened fire. Anthoneil died there next to the swings, and the object in his waistband turned out to be a water bottle.
Another situation where a family and friends grieve over an unarmed black person killed by police. The formidable blue wall shelters the trigger pullers under qualified immunity. Many families may experience violence but the reality is black people disproportionately meet their death by police…