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The freshman buried a dramatic 3-pointer 鈥?his fifth of the game 鈥?to put the Jayhawks up one. Selby led all scorers with 21 points, and in an instant, he became a fan favorite. However, the rest of his career did not follow in such a storybook fashion.
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Prior to the 2010-11 college basketball season, named Josh Selby the top recruit in the nation, ahead of players such as Kyrie Irving and Harrison Barnes. <a href=http://www.cicviseu.net/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-Wedding-Shoes>Jimmy Choo Outlet</a>  Many figured Selby would leave Kansas for the NBA Draft after one year, which he did despite the fact his season did not go as planned.
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Those聽three words emblazoned at the top of the GoFundMe website in support of the Ferguson, Missouri cop that gunned down Michael Brown said it all.
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Selby scored 15-plus points in four of his first five games as a Jayhawk, but would only reach that total one moretime in his next 21 outings. Selby鈥檚 draft stock plummeted toward the end of the year, as he went from being considered a top-10 pick to potentially going undrafted.
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In the span of less than 48 hours, nearly 5000 donations were received, and the site got tens of thousands of Facebook looks and tweets.
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Regardless, Selby declared for the 2011 NBA Draft, where the Memphis Grizzlies selected him with the No. 49 pick. Selby played in just 38 games over two years with the Grizzlies before being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Selby鈥檚 time in Cleveland was short lived, as he would be released less than three months later before playing in a single game.
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The beleaguered fund sponsors pleaded to be patient that they鈥檇 try to respond to the mountains of emails that poured in in support of Wilson. The funders announced triumphantly that they鈥檇 raised three times more than their funding goal.
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聽After failing to make a return to the NBA, Selby bounced around the world, playing for the Qingdao Double Star Eagles in China <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=Real-True-Religion-Jeans-For-Cheap>Real True Religion Jeans For Cheap</a>  and KK Cedevita in Croatia. However, Selby was not ready to let go of his dreams of being an NBA All-Star.
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This was no surprise. The instant Wilson was fingered as the shooter of Brown, the money train rolled into high gear complete with rallies, counter demonstrations, badge signing parties, and pitches to Americans to flash blue lights on their front porches backing Wilson. The Wilson tout was a virtual carbon copy of the campaign two years ago to rally round Trayvon Martin killer, George Zimmerman. He begged, scammed, and conned his way to soaking thousands of donors out of cash to bankroll his defense and much more. But as with Wilson, no one squawked <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=Christian-Louboutin-Python>Christian Louboutin Python</a>  about the funds, or much bothered to ask just where the money was going and for what. It didn鈥檛 really matter. With Wilson as with Zimmerman, the money is not the issue or concern. It鈥檚 the men and their action, and their victim that drive the zeal. The Zimmerman funders were unabashed in cheering him on. They railed that he, not Martin, was the victim of public and media bias and deserved all the support he could get. The sentiment is no different for Wilson from his legion of cheerleaders.
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鈥淔or the guys that say I鈥檓 done <in>the NBA], I just tell them to sit back and watch,鈥?Selby said in a promotional YouTube video leading up to The Basketball Tournament, an event that he participated in.
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The mix of fear, loathing, and unreconstructed bigotry, are certainly elements in the financial and moral circle the wagons boost of Wilson. But there鈥檚 more to it than that. A Huff Post/YouGov poll on public attitudes toward the GI Joe, heavy handed police action in Ferguson found that less than 40 percent of whites said that police use lethal force too frequently and only 40 percent of whites said they did not trust the justice system to investigate police killings. Blacks expressed far less trust of the justice system and support of the use of lethal force.聽 Despite the not surprisingly greater skepticism among blacks about police killings and the fairness of the justice system, public attitudes toward the police are a far different <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=True-Religion-Jeans-Super-T>True Religion Jeans Super T</a>  matter. In a Gallup survey that measured overall confidence in police the police topped out among the three highest-rated institutions out of 17 tested in terms of whites鈥?confidence, behind only the military and small business. Among blacks, confidence in the police, though lower on the scale, still ranked seventh on the list.
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聽Now Josh Selby is headed off to Israel to play with Bnei Herzilya, following in the footsteps of players such as Ekpe Udoh and P.J. Tucker, both of whom returned to the NBA after spending time with the club.
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In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, support for the police soared. Big and small municipal police departments were egged on by a compliant Congress that passed section 1033 of the 1997 National Defense Authorization Act and with grants from the Department of Homeland Security grabbed at the Pentagon鈥檚 give away of a dizzying array of battle field weapons, armor and vehicles. Civil libertarians frantically sounded the alarm that the rush to boost police firepower ignited a frightening expansion of virtually unchecked police power in which law enforcement agencies under the guise of fighting terrorism had an intrusive license to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens, target U.S. citizens, arrest witnesses for recording police actions, use GPS to track your every move, and use surveillance drones for domestic spying. Aside from the protest of the civil liberties and civil rights groups, and some congressional Democrats, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, there has been no mass outcry against any of these national security state measures.  
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鈥淚t鈥檚 not the NBA, but I still get to cash checks to provide for my family,鈥?Selby said <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=Yolanda-Christian-Louboutin>Yolanda Christian Louboutin</a>  on his Instagram account.
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The long standing police love fest is nowhere more evident than in the near impossibility of convicting cops that overuse deadly force. On the rare occasions that charges are brought against officers for deadly force, juries are loath to convict. Despite overwhelming evidence that police do profile minorities, lie, cheat, and even commit crimes, jurors still are far more likely to believe the testimony of police and prosecution witnesses than witnesses, defendants, or even the victims, especially minority victims.
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聽It may not be his first choice of where to play, but Selby will have a chance to prove that he belongs in the NBA. After all, that鈥檚 really all that Selby has ever asked for: a chance.聽
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This is not solely a product of the deep seated conditioning of the public to respect and even revere authority in order to maintain a lawful and orderly society. Generations have firmly believed that police are the solid line between peace and anarchy in society and anything less than iron-clad public and institutional allegiance to that authority is fraught with peril. To those critics who <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=True-Religion-Jeans-Womens>True Religion Jeans Womens</a>  question that authority, police officials have a standard retort: When your house is broken into or you are the victim of a mugger, who do you call?
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Wilson is the beneficiary of the aura of tradition, respect, and dependence that the police engender in Americans. This ensures that the men and women like him that horribly abuse their authority will always have the cheers of countless numbers.
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a frequent MSNBC contributor. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on American Urban Radio Network. He is the host of the weekly Hutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AM Radio Los Angeles and KPFK-Radio and the Pacifica Network. Follow Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Twitter:
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@@@ The freshman buried a dramatic 3-pointer 鈥?his fifth of the game 鈥?to put the Jayhawks up one. Selby led all scorers with 21 points, and in an instant, he became a fan favorite. However, the rest of his career did not follow in such a storybook fashion. 

Prior to the 2010-11 college basketball season,  named Josh Selby the top recruit in the nation, ahead of players such as Kyrie Irving and Harrison Barnes. <a href=http://www.cicviseu.net/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-Wedding-Shoes>Jimmy Choo Outlet</a>  Many figured Selby would leave Kansas for the NBA Draft after one year, which he did despite the fact his season did not go as planned.
Selby scored 15-plus points in four of his first five games as a Jayhawk, but would only reach that total one moretime in his next 21 outings. Selby鈥檚 draft stock plummeted toward the end of the year, as he went from being considered a top-10 pick to potentially going undrafted.
Regardless, Selby declared for the 2011 NBA Draft, where the Memphis Grizzlies selected him with the No. 49 pick. Selby played in just 38 games over two years with the Grizzlies before being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Selby鈥檚 time in Cleveland was short lived, as he would be released less than three months later before playing in a single game.
聽After failing to make a return to the NBA, Selby bounced around the world, playing for the Qingdao Double Star Eagles in China <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=Real-True-Religion-Jeans-For-Cheap>Real True Religion Jeans For Cheap</a>  and KK Cedevita in Croatia. However, Selby was not ready to let go of his dreams of being an NBA All-Star.
鈥淔or the guys that say I鈥檓 done <in>the NBA], I just tell them to sit back and watch,鈥?Selby said in a promotional YouTube video leading up to The Basketball Tournament, an event that he participated in.
聽Now Josh Selby is headed off to Israel to play with Bnei Herzilya, following in the footsteps of players such as Ekpe Udoh and P.J. Tucker, both of whom returned to the NBA after spending time with the club.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not the NBA, but I still get to cash checks to provide for my family,鈥?Selby said <a href=http://architectscanterbury.co.uk/page.php?sale=Yolanda-Christian-Louboutin>Yolanda Christian Louboutin</a>  on his Instagram account.
聽It may not be his first choice of where to play, but Selby will have a chance to prove that he belongs in the NBA. After all, that鈥檚 really all that Selby has ever asked for: a chance.聽
鈥?Edited by Drew Parks
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