Yup. I remember the movement was growing quickly in 2012-2013. It seemed like every day there were multiple posts on the reddit front page featuring police misconduct. I'm sure there were comments making it a race issue, but the overwhelming majority were focused on the issue without a racial component.
I think it was actually Matt Walsh that used to report in it a lot. It was in Reason magazine a lot. That was the first time I had ever been exposed to the media caring about police violence except for basically Rodney King shit. Alternative media anyways.
But it's kind of like the beating of protestors. Since Civil Rights the media DNGAF about white protestors beaten . But the beatings of so called Civil Rights campaigners are remembered to this day, like that asshole John Lewis who never did shit for his people BUT get beat up.
Yup. I remember the movement was growing quickly in 2012-2013. It seemed like every day there were multiple posts on the reddit front page featuring police misconduct. I'm sure there were comments making it a race issue, but the overwhelming majority were focused on the issue without a racial component.
Then BLM hijacked it like you said.
I think it was actually Matt Walsh that used to report in it a lot. It was in Reason magazine a lot. That was the first time I had ever been exposed to the media caring about police violence except for basically Rodney King shit. Alternative media anyways.
But it's kind of like the beating of protestors. Since Civil Rights the media DNGAF about white protestors beaten . But the beatings of so called Civil Rights campaigners are remembered to this day, like that asshole John Lewis who never did shit for his people BUT get beat up.