Okay so, here’s the thing about Black Lives Matter (BLM): When it comes to black people and the police, there is no question that the police act as judge, jury, and executioner. They kill with impunity. There is no accountability or redress. This is how it’s been historically: The entire justice system appears to act in collusion with this, and structural racism (also known as white supremacy) has facilitated the ease of these attacks on a segment of the population that is a numerical minority. That is BLM’s beef with law enforcement in a tiny nutshell.

Now let’s step outside of that nutshell for a moment. When you step outside of that lens, here is what you see: The police act as judge, jury and executioner with the population at large. They kill with impunity. There is no accountability. And the entire justice system appears to act in collusion with this. This horrible case out of Brunswick, Georgia, appears to bear this out.

And when I say horrible, I mean horror-bull.

Caroline Small led Glynn County police and Georgia state troopers on a slow speed, four-mile chase in June 2010. Small had been a drug addict for several years and had been through rehab several times, most recently two days before this incident. Police responded to a call of someone using drugs in a hotel parking lot. Upon finding Small in the parking lot they asked to speak with her but she slowly drove off, which initiated the police chase.

After about 20 minutes of driving erratically though neighborhoods and commercial districts, a Georgia trooper was able to ram the side and rear of Small’s car and spin her around. The car spun and landed with its rear about two to three feet away from a telephone pole, with the trooper’s vehicle blocking its passenger side. A Glynn County police car blocked the car from the front. Officers left their cars, yelling for Small to get out of the car, which she never did. Small put the car in reverse twice and drove forward twice, but it was clearly a knee-jerk reaction—due to the proximity of both police vehicles and the telephone pole, there was no way she was going to be able to flee in her car which, by the way, had three punctured tires. The second time her car moved forward it did not get a chance to touch the police car in front of it: The officers opened fire, hitting the windshield eight times.