Camden wrote:You ask what I think is nonsense. Well, look around. There are millions of uneducated (in that they haven't asked enough why's) people from all sorts of backgrounds protesting and rioting over a false narrative. The idea that blacks, especially unarmed blacks, are being unjustly murdered by law enforcement is lunacy. The numbers don't support it. In reality -- a place where liberal Democrats don't often spend much of their time -- a greater number of whites are killed by police annually, which is absurd considering blacks statistically make up roughly 60-percent of all violent crimes. You'd think that since whites are being killed more often that they'd be committing more violent crime, but that's not the case. Nobody wants you to know that as it doesn't play into the Black Lives Matter movement where they portray black people to be helpless and dependent victims of the law.
Now, we can look at specific instances where the American people have been lied to by mainstream media. George Floyd was viciously murdered by police offers in Minneapolis. He couldn't breathe for eight minutes. He was a God-fearing man who was changing his life for the better... Or was he? Further research would lead most rational people to believe that he was incredibly high and absolutely resisting arrest. Further research would show that Floyd's autopsy showed that he had a lethal dose of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system and that his death was not caused by asphyxiation. The body camera footage of officers on the scene show that Floyd -- while resisting arrest -- was complaining about everything from head to toe to include his lack of breathing... long before an officer ever had his knee placed on his neck. Floyd stated that he could not breathe, that he was claustrophobic, that he was thirsty, that his knees hurt, that his back hurt. Floyd begged and pleaded for these officers to lay him on the ground where he was detained and eventually died. In my non-medical opinion, he died of a drug overdose. Derek Chauvin will be disciplined for how he handled the situation, but I do not think he murdered Floyd that day.
And now we have Jacob Blake. The media wants you to know that he's a father of six. They want you to know that he was mediating an altercation between two women. They want you to know that he was shot seven times in the back for no apparent reason. What they don't want you to find out is that Blake has a blatant criminal history. That Blake is a sexual offender and domestic abuser on multiple charges. That Blake had a warrant for his arrest. That Blake has a history of violence and the police dating back to 2015 where he grappled with police after pointing his firearm at a man in a bar. The Wisconsin DOJ confirmed this evening that Blake was in fact armed with a knife on the scene of his shooting. So, we know the history. We know that he was armed. Well, did the police take progressive measures in order to subdue Blake? Video evidence confirms that officers gave verbal commands and attempted to take him down to the ground. They were unsuccessful. They told him to "drop the knife" to which he did not comply. They used a stun gun as the next means of force, but was unsuccessful. Blake, still carrying his knife, promptly walked to the driver side of his SUV and reached inside. It's at that point where lethal force is authorized and the officer fired his weapon. You have a suspect with a violent history who is resisting arrest and various means of force reaching into his vehicle for what I'm sure they thought would be another weapon. Those officers have families to return to. They have lives to protect including their own. I can't understand what others do not understand about this. How can people simply deduce this as a racially-motivated killing of the innocent. It's mind-boggling.
So, yes, to me and I'm sure many others this entire protest and movement is nonsense. The facts and details are open to the public. It's up to each individual to not only find them on their own but to think for themselves. I'm not seeing that happen in 2020. I'm seeing sheep be led astray by the media. I'm seeing a lack of accountability and responsibility in various forms. There are more lives being destroyed as a response to these incidents than there are lives being taken from law enforcement. Where does this end? How does this end? I simply don't know.
If you happened to read this long of a post, then I hope you either found yourself nodding along because you knew the information already and agree or you are motivated to go make some conclusions of your own. Or you can make a rebuttal. But do not call me a racist as you have no basis for such a claim. I see that word being thrown around every day on social media and it is losing its value.
We can look at this both ways. Whenever a white person is taken in for a crime, we don't get the menacing mugshot plastered on TV. We always get the picture where the criminal looks innocent, looks normal, looks like the everyday person. We always get the story of how nice he was, how much his parents loved him, and the worst case scenario is a plea that maybe he's not mentally stable. Depending on who you look to for news, that is always the stance taken. When he's black we get the most menacing picture ever and we find out about the time he shoved a girl in the 3rd grade. It's slanted narrative.
It's not that guys like Jacob Blake and George Floyd or whoever were saints. But the way they died /got shot is inexcusable. In George Floyd's case, there's 4 cops standing around, 3 of them being spectators and the only way to keep him under control was to put a knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds? In Jacob Blake's case, nothing he did justified seven shots to the back. I live in the hood, and I don't care how desensitized to violence you are, a warning shot causes everyone to drop what they're doing. 1 to the air woulda been a lot more useful than 7 to the back. 7 shots is something you reserve for an animal in a life or death situation. If a tiger is tryna claw at my throat, 7 bullets in it is very justifiable. If a guy is trying to open his car, even if he was reaching for a weapon, I as the cop have a gun and my fellow officers. I shouldn't be in fear of my life. That cop was because deep down he felt that Black man could overwhelm him despite having a gun in hand. He shouldn't be on the streets thinking that way. He didn't look at him as a guy who could restrain without further incident. He looked at him like an animal he had to tranquilize and too many times officers look at Black men as animals they have to put down and it's sickening.
Do I think you're a racist? I don't know. But part of why there's such anger and frustration when it comes to this stuff is because certain opinions can't be just be let go as merely agreeing to disagree. Disagreeing about whether LaMelo Ball should be the #1 pick can be chalked up as agreeing to disagree. Disagreeing with why a race of people still feel as if we're viewed as subhuman and expendable by another race is not.
