This well written article unfortunately creates a false equivalency with lines like this:

"To be suspected of committing such a violent, heinous crime and still be given the time to collect yourself is something other White suspects can relate to."

First, the suspect, Daniel Penny did not buy a gun like Dylann Roof and then plan and execute a racially motivated mass killing.

Nor did Penny have a badge and automatic pistol and empty it into the back of a fleeing black man.

Second, Penny was riding on a public transit, going about his business.

Third, Penny acted in the heat of the moment, with help from other passengers, well within his own very human 'fight or flight response'.

Where does one run to when in a crowded and moving subway car?

He was no vigilante.

Fourth, Penny did not know Jordan Neely, he only saw a man acting so menacingly irrational and erratic that Penny had no time to think of Neely's Michael Jackson impersonations.

Penny could only think of his and his fellow passengers' collective safety.

Nor did he have time to assess Mr. Neely's mental health status card. Nor his lengthy rap sheet for violence against elderly women.

Fifth, not every deadly interaction between human beings is based on race.

Although Ms. Wilitz carefully avoids branding Penny a racist, by pointing out his whiteness, it does beg the question.

Here's a thought:

How long do you think Mr. Penny could have survived as a racist in the US Marines, when its racial makeup is this:

"The Corps is 58% white and 42% minority, a July 2021 Marine Corps Gazette article states."

Of course, it would be naive to think that racism does not exist in the US Military, but if your life depends on the actions of the man or woman beside you, you will not see a black or white or brown face, you will see the face of a comrade.

Ms. Wiltz, you denigrate a most worthy cause, the call for National judicial and police reform by comparing the unfortunate death of Mr. Neely to those who far too often pay for racial profiling with their lives.