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In reply to the discussion: I never learned about this in American History class. [View all]Moostache
(9,895 posts)Really there are hundreds, if not thousands of examples that make this discrepancy in approach to policing black men and white men. The murder of Mr. Scott - while actively FLEEING for his life - sticks with me, but so too does Laquan McDonald, and George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks and too many more known and unknown...
Or look to the Michigan "protests" in April with armed white men SCREAMING in the faces of police and drawing no response, but peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square being tear gassed and herded out of the area by men on horses- and DO NOT MISS THE SYMBOLISM OF THAT EITHER (it was entirely mean to evoke the image of running down and capturing runaway slaves to a specific segment of the population.
When a white multi-murderer is quietly caught, arrested and offered fucking food, while an unarmed black man is killed in the parking lot of a similar fast food establishment, only the willfully blind cannot see it for what it is - a systemic issue that cannot be solved without systemic changes.