Here We Go Again.

A Staten Island grand jury cleared an NYPD cop in the chokehold death of Eric Garner during his caught-on-video arrest for peddling loose cigarettes. The panel voted a “no-bill” and dismissed all charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, capping weeks of investigation by the special grand jury, set up in September specifically to review evidence in Garner’s racially charged death.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito called the ruling “a terribly disappointing outcome” that ran counter to “the events that led to Eric Garner’s death.”

“What makes this even more infuriating is the frequent lack of accountability, which is why I urge the U.S. Department of Justice to launch its own investigation,” she added.

Meanwhile – back in the “Show Me” state…

Members of the New Black Panther Party plotted to bomb St. Louis’ Gateway Arch and assassinate local police in the wake of the original Ferguson riots, but the Justice Department hasn’t issued terrorism charges – only hitting them with minor possession gun charges.

Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Ali Davis of the New Black Panther Party discussed using bombs to blow up the Gateway Arch and the murder of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson and St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch.

Evidently, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has a “go soft” order on the racist group – but watch how hard he comes down on the NYPD.

It reminds me of when Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood atop the medal podium at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, bowed their heads and raised black-gloved fists during the playing of the national anthem.  They ended up being kicked off the U.S. Track Team for their actions.

It was neither the time nor place for such a protest – and most Americans knew it.

Forty-six years later, the St. Louis Police Officers Association wants a public apology from the St. Louis Rams and the NFL after five Rams players walked out on to the field on Sunday with their hands raised similar to those used by Ferguson protestors. SLPOA Business Manager Jeff Roorda points out the hypocrisy.

“All week long, the Rams and the NFL were on the phone with the St. Louis Police Department asking for assurances that the players and the fans would be kept safe from the violent protesters who had rioted, looted, and burned buildings in Ferguson.”

Where and how these five players decided to express their opinions was wrong, since there were more than 50 business owners and clean-up-crew workers in the stands. Basically, the players slapped those people in the face by supporting the rioters and looters with their ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ gesture.

The Rams should support their community, not add to the problem – and most Americans know it.

There was a time when the Democratic Party was respectable. But on Monday, four members of the Congressional Black Caucus did the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture during remarks from the House Floor, to show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.

Congressional folks Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) and Al Green (D-Tex.), referred to the gesture that has come to symbolize the outrage over the death of Brown, the Black man shot dead by White police officer Darren Wilson in August. Lee and Green, also offered their praise for the five St. Louis Rams who gave the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” signal on the field during a game.

Such theatrical activities evoke an emotional reaction and have nothing to do with facts or laws.

There is a meme making the rounds on Facebook about a young man named DeAndre Joshua, the only person killed during the riots, looting and arson-fires in Ferguson, Missouri. His death has become fodder for online speculation, as people continue to claim Joshua was one of the unnamed witnesses, who testified before the Michael Brown grand jury.

However, he had nothing to do with the grand jury as he was in St. Louis at the time of Brown’s fatal shooting, though he was a childhood friend of the man who was walking in the street with Brown when Brown attacked Officer Darren Wilson. Furthermore, Joshua completed his sentence of ‘community service,’ for ‘resisting arrest’ in 2013.

So far there have been no rallies or news cameras, no signs or ribbons to mark the spot where someone shot Joshua once in the head, then set him on fire inside his car. His death appears to be nothing more than a footnote in the events of that ugly night.

After the president’s meeting with leaders on race, the Congressional Black Caucus took to the House floor to discuss the events in Ferguson, Missouri.

“The Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict former officer Darren Wilson was yet another slap in our face,” said Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio. “It was another painful reminder that just like with Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice, and so many others, that law enforcement officers kill our black and brown boys without repercussions.”

Then Congressman Hakeem Jeffries brought the “hands up, don’t shoot” pose to the House floor.

“’Hands up, don’t shoot’ — it’s a rallying cry of people all across America who are fed up with police violence in community after community after community…in Ferguson, in Brooklyn, in Cleveland, in Oakland,” Jeffries said.

So much for the rule of law.

There hasn’t been a day since October 9th, that I haven’t failed to think of my dog, Harley. In fact, I have time and again embarrassingly called each of the other three dogs by his name.

So it was a pleasant surprise when this arrived:

Thank you to both Baring Boulevard Veterinary Hospital and to Furry Friends Assistance Fund for remembering Harley with this gesture. It does my heart good.

An off-duty Akron, Ohio White police officer was fatally shot while confronting an armed Black man November 16th.

Justin Winebrenner and several friends were at a pub when a man became disorderly and kicked out of the pub. The man returned a short time later and brandished a handgun.

A staff member, who was aware Winebrenner was a police officer, alerted him to the situation.  Winebrenner and another off-duty officer confronted the man, who then opened fire.

One shot struck Winebrenner in the chest, killing him. The alleged gunman, Kenan Ivery, pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated murder and five counts of felonious assault.

Winebrenner served with the department for seven years and the Medina County Juvenile Detention Center for two years. He’s survived by a four-year-old daughter and fiancée.

And where is Winebrenner’s 15 minutes in the media-spotlight? Nowhere, as the story doesn’t fit the media’s ‘White cop kills Black kid’ template.

President Obama evoked Martin Luther King Jr., ghost on Black Entertainment Television claiming his daughters could someday face dangers from racism like those the civil rights legend battled a half-century ago: “I want my children to be seen as the individuals that they are, and I want them to be judged based on the content of their character and their behavior and their talents and their gifts.”

He might fear this – but he has no heart to actually do anything about it – which was evident when he refused defend his daughters after they we ‘bullied’ by a GOP congressman’s spokes woman. I wonder how emotionally damaged his daughters will be by the time he leaves office.

At first I was angry about MIT Professor Jonathon Gruber’s comment about the American people: “It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter,” Gruber said at the Honors Colloquium 2012 at the University of Rhode Island.

Later while visiting Washington University at St. Louis in 2013 he said, “They proposed it (Obamacare) and that passed, because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.”

But the more I thought about it – he’s correct – we American’s are stupid. There is plenty of proof online showing people (especially recent high school graduates and current college students)  can’t even answer the most basic of history, political or science questions:

• Who won the Civil War?
• Who did the U.S. gain its independence from?
• What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
• Who is our Vice President?
• Is President Obama a lame duck?
• What is the largest state in the Union?
• How many hydrogen molecules in water?
• What is the name of the closest star to the earth?
• Pure water has a pH level of about?

Time and again we’ve watched late-night segments on the ‘Tonight Show’ with Jay Leno, ‘The Jimmy Kimmel Show’ or maybe Fox News’ ‘Watter’s World,’ with Jesse Watters, laughing at the answers people give to the simplest of questions. But if you think about it – while it  ‘makes’ for ‘good TV’ – it isn’t funny at all.

ANSWERS: The North, Great Britain, 1776, Joe Biden, yes, Alaska, two, the Sun, seven.

Every story of any unarmed citizen gunned down by police officers deserves public scrutiny. But that doesn’t seem to be the case when it comes to the increasing national media bias and their template of ‘White cop kills Black kids.’

So what if that got turned around – ‘Black cop kills White kid?’

A naked and unarmed Gil Collar was shot and killed by a University of South Alabama campus police officer in October 2012. At the time of the shooting, Collar was using LSD and exhibiting erratic behavior around the police station on campus.

A two-minute video of Collar, from a security camera mounted on the campus police station at the university, recorded almost the entire incident including the shooting. Officers said that Collar was acting “aggressively” in the video, pounding on the window, walking away, then returning.

That’s when Officer Trevis Austin came outside with his gun drawn and aimed at Collar, shooting him once in the chest. The circumstances mirror those of the August 9th shooting death of Michael Brown, a Black unarmed man under the influence of drugs by Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in Ferguson.

Jus’ like in Ferguson, Missouri, an Alabama grand jury refused to bring charges against Austin, in spite of the heavy pressure from the public. But unlike Ferguson, the media wasn’t around to fan riotors flames.

Collar’s parents filed a civil lawsuit against Austin, with a trial date set for February 2nd, 2015. But don’t worry, whatever the verdict, the national media is sure to ignore the outcome.