I know I need to get off of facebook, but I have a ton of cousins and it is the best way to keep in touch with everyone but I really need to stop reading comments on things.
I got sucked into a little argument because someone posted about George Floyd. I guess he was angry because he along with other "protesters" from the summer of love were being told that they worship Floyd and he took exception to that because he said speaking out against police brutality. I told him that it was possible to be against police brutality while also not making a martyr out of people. Like giving Floyd a golden casket funeral like he was some medal of honor winner during the "deadly" covid pandemicthat apparently didn't affect rioters. Also asked him why they don't bother to examine the actual facts of these shootings since pretty much all of them involve not listening to the cops or resisting.
Long story short he wasn't thrilled with that. I asked if he fought against police brutality when Tony Tympa died (of course he hadn't heard of him) and when I mentioned David Dorn he said that Dorn wasn't killed by peaceful protesters.
Long story short he told me I was following white supremacist talking points and blocked me when I said that apparently white supremacy means not doing things that attract the cops.
I still don't understand why people don't realize you can be against police brutality and hold cops accountable while also not worshipping people and making them saints. Interesting how the whole "you can't talk about their past" rules went out the window with Ashli Babbit.
I first heard about no knock warrants because it happened to an elderly white couple who the cops went to by mistake. Also a white guy was mistakenly killed but that didn’t matter since it didn’t feed the narrative. But you are right. So many blm “heroes” were resisting violently. Even Floyd didn’t listen to the cops. I’ve said police brutality affects everyone so it should be an issue that unites races since there are cases with people of all races. But that will never happen.
Eric Garner was the cigarette guy. They made it about race when there was no evidence plus the supervisor of the cops was black. No evidence with Floyd of race issues either.
I know Candace Owens is coming out with a documentary exposing blm. Granted blm has pretty much exposed themselves as money grubbing liars but hoped she can do more damage
True. It is a shame that it lead to his death over a stupid law.
Philando Castile also comes to mind. As far as I can tell, his only "crime" was informing a police officer at a traffic stop for a broken taillight that he was carrying a licensed firearm. The officer panicked and shot him, believing that he was reaching for said firearm.
I respect that officers put their lives on the line, but they have training, while civilians do not. If routine traffic stops are always going to be tense life-and-death situations, without citzens knowing the rules, we need some sort of reform.
garner is basically the one case blm talks about that i give them full props on. he wasn't a threat to anyone. they should have just taken his smokes and told him to fuck off. they killed him for no reason.
The dude resisted arrest and was just so fucking fat he died
they had no grounds to arrest him.
Yes they did. It's entirely legal and constitutional to arrest for misdemeanors unless your state law says otherwise
Unfortunately blm has cried wolf so much that they can’t be taken seriously. Yea that was an idiotic law. Only thing was they framed it around race when there was no evidence of that. They should’ve gone after that law