statefan91 said:
Maybe white people should also have a problem with the number of white people killed by police?
I don't see how it's better to say "you guys shouldn't worry about it, police kill way more of us and we're fine with it"
Not remotely what I said or implied.
What I am saying is, the killings of blacks needs to stop being blown out of proportion in a ridiculous fashion, like it currently is being done and has been for a while now.
Not that some of them, a very few, but some... Shouldn't be looked at. But it is to the point that people are jumping to a conclusion before the body is even cool, and the riots / protests are being formed. And then the majority of the time, when all the evidence comes in after an investigation is conducted, we find out that either the shooting was legit, or it at least was not anywhere near as egregious as first thought.
The incident with George Floyd is a perfect example.
In a knee-jerk reaction to a video that only told part of the story, the cops have been charged with second-degree murder. It is almost a certainty that he is going to get acquitted of that, because that was not an appropriate charge... Based on the evidence.
The perception that cops unjustly shoot blacks in huge numbers really needs to be shot down. That is not the case at all. as is the misconception that race has anything to do with these shootings.
They expect the cops to be absolutely perfect...but even when the cops don't do anything wrong, blacks lie about what happened because that's just what things have come to. You can find incident after incident after incident ad nauseam of blacks lying and getting everyone else riled up.
Just a few that come to mind:
Remember the cops shot a young man in Raleigh not long ago. Javier Torres, google him. Some black girl went on FB live, lying, saying "the police shot a young boy carrying a pizza". You can probably still find the post with all the comments about how terrible it was and how badly they get treated.
Dude was in his 20's, had a gun. Protesters marched to the police chief's home.
Remember Akiel Denkins. Thug, criminal, ran from a cop, then tried to shoot him, then fought with the cop. Tried to take his gun, got shot. His mother said the cop shot him in the back. Denkins' DNA was found on the cop's gun. Cop did everything right.
Mom lied.
Remember Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte: Had a gun, didn't comply, cops shot him. Wife claimed he was holding a book not a gun. Gun found at scene, was stolen and sold to Scott, had his fingerprints on it. Riots and protests in Charlotte over this and a man was shot and killed during them. Because the wife/family lied.
You can go on and on for a long time with these cases around the country. Ferguson: All because witnesses (black) lied about Michael Brown. "Hands up, don't shoot"....it was a total lie. Once the evidence came out, it was clear, but the riots were already over, the cop already lost his job for no reason.
Look at the riots and other incidents in Ferguson resulting from that: Multiple people were shot in confrontations with the police, and I believe in every one of them, witnesses/friends claimed the person who was shot was unarmed. And every one of them lied.
It's really the rule, not the exception. And it needs to be called out and stopped.
