What's interesting about this whole thing is that this is the result of BLM pushing police forces to hire locals as police for their local community.
It's a bizarre situation where everyone (suspect included) behaved badly, but the truth is that this IS how the locals would police their own. It's kinda like when we saw BLM's militants engaging in worse police abuse than any police department they criticized when they were operating out of CHAZ. However, this is a more accountable and genuine form of policing. These are not white cops from different counties, these are black locals, policing from within their community, by cultural standards that the community already accepts.
A white cop from out of town is just assumed to need to behave better, but this is what the local community would expect if they had to go out policing. It also reminds me of some of those anti-police activists immediately shooting unarmed suspects because they got scared... in a simulation.
Truth is, they were acquitted because if you were a black man in this community and a black man to fight you, you would get your ass beat just as badly as this guy was beaten by these cops.
What's interesting about this whole thing is that this is the result of BLM pushing police forces to hire locals as police for their local community.
It's a bizarre situation where everyone (suspect included) behaved badly, but the truth is that this IS how the locals would police their own. It's kinda like when we saw BLM's militants engaging in worse police abuse than any police department they criticized when they were operating out of CHAZ. However, this is a more accountable and genuine form of policing. These are not white cops from different counties, these are black locals, policing from within their community, by cultural standards that the community already accepts.
A white cop from out of town is just assumed to need to behave better, but this is what the local community would expect if they had to go out policing. It also reminds me of some of those anti-police activists immediately shooting unarmed suspects because they got scared... in a simulation.
Truth is, they were acquitted because if you were a black man in this community and a black man to fight you, you would get your ass beat just as badly as this guy was beaten by these cops.
This is abuse by my standard, but not by theirs.