It's election season, and there's a video of a cop shooting a mentally ill old black woman who was trying to throw boiling water on them. The usual arguments are happening of course, but it's not dominating the news like it normally would.
Two possibilities stick out to me as plausible.
One is that the Dems and their mouthpieces in the MSM are sitting and waiting to push this story at the right moment, as they've calculated that it isn't a good time to make it go viral yet. While the other possibility is that they've simply dropped the BLM shit because even their own voters are sick and tired of it, which the election of Eric Adams over Maya Wiley among many other developments was already indicative of.
The fact that Kamala has a record as a "tough on crime" DA and AG and was roasted by her own side for trying to ride the BLM wave probably makes it next to impossible for Dems to promote chimpouts with her as their candidate.
I've definitely noticed an angle to the gender war among blacks being that black women are more apt to be stridently pro-cop (God help anyone who's ever at the mercy of a black female cop btw), and to say the quiet part out loud about how black male criminals won't stop unless you're ruthless with them. Considering that black men probably despise Kamala as the epitome of a bossy black woman, and how Trump is a felon who was shot at, I have to wonder how that'll affect the black male vote - not that I'm holding my breath.
Now that black girl magic boss babe police brutality is the hot new thang, white women are also feeling emboldened to say the quiet part out loud. "Karen" doesn't really work anymore either. I've long believed that Western police states would ultimately ground their legitimacy in feminist rhetoric, of course that's already blatantly been the case in the UK for a long time so it's not like I'm Nostradamus here.
Plus VAWA was in and of itself a huge expansion of the American police state. Funnily enough, back in the day Biden got Bernie to vote for the 94 crime bill by pairing it with VAWA, and Bernie supporters talk about that like it was a dirty trick, but if you really think about it, Biden was being the more logically consistent one, since VAWA and the crime bill both meant more blacks in prison LOL!
George Floyd was a perfect opportunity that the media has been salivating for for over a decade. Every year (and even in 2020) they tried to elevate a shooting or death into a full riot. 99% of the time there's some factor that makes it abundantly clear to normies that it isn't worth the riot.
To be fair, even George Floyd had numerous factors that made this not a big deal. First and foremost, if you can yell "I can't breathe" then... you can breathe. He was committing a crime (passing counterfeit bills) and had a lengthy criminal history. But the optics were so bad the story went viral and any attempt to point out these facts just got you labeled as "part of the problem."
This case is different in a key way: no one is trying to defend the cop.
In a way, the key part of a PERFECT SITUATION is to find a cop in a position where the media can run with a narrative of police brutality AND enough people try to counter the narrative. This has the counterintuitive effect of making the story even bigger and swelling the false narrative. This pattern doesn't happen when the cop is CLEARLY in the wrong. It proves the system works. No outrage.
There's a lot of scheming and maneuvering that makes these events pop up in the national discourse.