Multiple high-profile murders of black men and women happened within the span of a single month, in one of those instances the victim was literally asleep in her bed. The George Floyd video was just the straw that broke the camel's back, it was incredibly powerful footage.
So you're saying that the footage - which is SOP for police and military, and to my knowledge has never resulted in a death via asphyxiation largely because you would pass out from blood loss several minutes before you die from lack of oxygen, and therefore be totally complaint - was propaganda?
I never said that Breona Taylor's murder was justified (Narrator's Voice: It wasn't justified), and in my opinion the cops are out of control. We can easily solve it by outlawing public employee unions - which I hope happens soon - and removing qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture, and no-knock warrants. Vigorous prosecution of cops who do unjustifiably murder unarmed people is another good idea.
Adding requirements for height, physical fitness, and MMA training would greatly increase options for the police to forcibly deescalate violent encounters, and would deter people with Napoleon complexes (who are rarely good at physical violence, hence their insecurity) from becoming cops.
Say what you will about an arm bar, but feeling your bones strain against their sockets is wonderfully focusing - though you're focusing on not losing the use of your arm for the next week.
In any case, it's not actually about police violence because if it were, they would provide at least some attention for the far more frequent murders of unarmed white and hispanic men by cops.
Yeah...grasping at any excuse to justify murder sure isn't gonna help slow down or stop the protesting.
The burden is on you to prove he was murdered; go refute the autopsy and get back to me. And in the future refrain from putting words in my mouth if you want to be taken seriously
I don't want the "protesting" to stop. It's cratering public support for Joe Biden and the Democrats in general. I want the "protests" - by which I mean the Joe Biden Burn Loot Murder riots - to go on as long as possible, preferably in Democrat-majority cities.
It's not often that you get to watch the opposing party literally burn down their own cities. I hope they keep doing it. Democrats absolutely deserve to suffer for the what they've put this nation through the last 5 years; and ironically they are and should continue to be the source of their suffering.
All the body cam footage shows is cops stopping citizens (and one off-duty firefighter) from attempting to help Floyd. Releasing it sooner wouldn't have made any difference, especially if it was released under the pretense that it should make people "calm down." If anything that would've only sparked more outrage.
The cops released footage of some guy that shot himself in the head to avoid arrest at a mall. Happened a few days ago. There were riots until they released the footage, after which they were criticized for "insensitivity". While I don't envy the cops their position, they absolutely deserve it.
Given the example above, you are wrong.
You should really stop licking boot so much and learn to empathize a little with fellow Americans, or even just fellow human beings. Authoritarianism never stops at just one group or race.
I'm not the one assaulting people for not parroting my beliefs; it is YOUR people who are.
If you guys are such a threat to the establishment, why aren't your burning down the homes of cops, politicians, high-ranking bureaucrats, major political donors, journalists, and other such elites? It's not rocket science; much of it is a matter of public record, and what isn't could be figured out with judicious use of open source intelligence.
Why are you instead burning down grocery stores - often in BIPOC neighborhoods, and owned/run by BIPOC proprietors? Why are you creating food and pharmacy deserts in BIPOC neighborhoods, when you claim to represent them? Where is the empathy for the people whose livelihoods were annihilated by YOUR "protests"? They don't all have insurance, and insurance policies vary wildly - many don't cover arson and domestic terrorism.
Semi-Related: Why is it that some kid "shot into a crowd" and managed to kill a child molester who prefers 12 year olds, a serial domestic abuser, and wound a convicted felon illegally carrying a firearm? Do you think that being the party of both Capital (nearly every major corporation supports and funds BLM) and the Lumpenproletariat is a great way to appeal to Middle America? Have you actually read Marx?
Why do so many of the BLM crowds look lily-white? It's clear that this is an excuse for white people to get out of the house and strike at those the media tells them are their oppressors.
Given that you and I agree on almost everything, you should meditate on why you have lost the support of people who are ideologically on your side.
