Shaw said that “It makes me feel like we’re expendable to the police, like we’re nothing, like it’s like modern-day slavery,” she said. “Instead of hanging us, they’re shooting us. So we just need some type of closure because we can’t allow this to keep happening, especially in our communities.”
Fact: cops called to a pharmacy, after someone was shot there
Fact: cops pursued a suspect
Fact: cops encountered Benjamin Tyson, and tell him to put his hands up.
Fact: Tyson draws a gun on the cops, at which point cops fire.
we can’t allow this to keep happening, especially in our communities
OK, agree. But they did nothing wrong in this case. Yeah, there's plenty of things about the modern police system I want to see reformed/changed. But your brother was running around a 9:30 at night in February near the scene of a shooting, and he then pulls a gun on the cops when they confront him. What did he think was going to happen? What do you think the cops should have done? Because there's no other options, unless you're an amoral sociopath.
Option 1: Just don't go after the shooter at all? OK, at this point you're telling the guy bleeding out in the middle of the street, and everyone in that community, that their lives are with squat because people (including, potentially, your brother) can just come along and shoot them dead with no repercussions.
Option 2: The cops just let your brother gun them down? Now its the people trying to keep everyone safe who should be murdered with impunity. And once the cops are all dead/scared off, we're back at option 1.
Or maybe you and your brother should have watched the Chris Rock video from a decade or more ago.
Fact: cops called to a pharmacy, after someone was shot there
Fact: cops pursued a suspect
Fact: cops encountered Benjamin Tyson, and tell him to put his hands up.
Fact: Tyson draws a gun on the cops, at which point cops fire.
OK, agree. But they did nothing wrong in this case. Yeah, there's plenty of things about the modern police system I want to see reformed/changed. But your brother was running around a 9:30 at night in February near the scene of a shooting, and he then pulls a gun on the cops when they confront him. What did he think was going to happen? What do you think the cops should have done? Because there's no other options, unless you're an amoral sociopath.
Option 1: Just don't go after the shooter at all? OK, at this point you're telling the guy bleeding out in the middle of the street, and everyone in that community, that their lives are with squat because people (including, potentially, your brother) can just come along and shoot them dead with no repercussions.
Option 2: The cops just let your brother gun them down? Now its the people trying to keep everyone safe who should be murdered with impunity. And once the cops are all dead/scared off, we're back at option 1.
Or maybe you and your brother should have watched the Chris Rock video from a decade or more ago.
They'd obviously prefer the latter, just look at any of BLM's chosen martyrs.