Bulletproof Prayers

I need to write because if I don't write I will cry. Constantly. I follow a man on Facebook named Shaun King, he is very active in BLM Cause. Anything that I don't find out on my own, I usually hear about on his pages. I see a kindred spirit in his passion, and completely respect his sense of urgency. I went to bed relatively early last night because I didn't feel very well. It wasn't until today, that I saw what Shaun King posted last night. He put up a video recorded by someone else, of a black man being executed  by at least FIVE police officers in San Francisco. Naturally, there's a back story. Apparently, this man stabbed someone minutes prior to his execution and it was said that he still has the knife on him at the time of his murder. I've watched this video about a dozen times, searching for that knife. And nothing. Let me say, that if that man had really stabbed someone and still had the assault weapon in his possession then he wholeheartedly deserved to get arrested, and do some time in jail. Hurting people is wrong. That being said, they did not arrest that man, they did not try to non-brutally disarm that man. Those "Officers of the Law", killed that man. Multiple bullets were involved and it looked like smack dab in the middle of the day. As if they all got together and said "Hey guys, I'm bored, let's take a black man's life on our lunch break cool? Cool." Seeing it, hearing it, my  tears couldn't flow fast enough. To be completely honest with you guys what this man did alleged or otherwise, that point is moot now. It doesn't matter what he did NOONE DESERVES TO DIE LIKE THAT. Everyday civilians literally get more time in jail for being less cruel to an animal.( Yes, animal abuse is terrible too) The issue here is, this man was a human being and he was snuffed out as if somebody was getting a fee behind his last breath or something. What the actual hell? This happened YESTERDAY. I just laid my eyes on it today.  The wound is so fresh for me that I haven't gotten this black man's name yet. I didn't have the time, I was already mourning before I saw the end of the video. That's the saddest realization of this world today, you don't have to know names, back stories, or even ages at this point. The sadness doesn't end. And I wish these politicians would stop offering up their prayers. It's not that I don't believe in God, because even though I'm nowhere near religious, I still believe that a higher power is involved with my journey. So it's not the offering of the prayer that's the problem, it's giving the prayer as a blatant substitute for absolute nothingness. These politicians and authority figures are giving prayer because they refuse to do or offer anything of actual substance. I'm pretty sure I can speak for all my people when I say, unless these prayers are bulletproof, we don't need them we don't want them.