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In reply to the discussion: New angle shows Good blocking the street and honking before the shooting. [View all]EarlG
(23,390 posts)And you also said that she "showed her ass" which is pretty insensitive, especially given that everyone is on edge at the moment.
But my point -- and this is the point I think you were trying to make -- is that it's okay to say that she was interfering. Peaceful civil disobedience is exactly what John Lewis called "good trouble." She had her car halfway across the road, which is a traffic offense. Meanwhile people were blowing whistles, they were filming and mouthing off to the cops. That's not illegal.
What is worrying to me is that folks are countering the right-wing's "She was asking for it!" talking point by reflexively suggesting that she wasn't doing anything. But she was doing something. So I think the correct response is, "In the course of committing a basic traffic offense, she was ordered to move her car while another officer tried to yank open her car door, and she chose to move. For that she was shot three times and killed." If we pretend that she wasn't engaging in "good trouble," I believe it might actually bolster the right-wing's talking point that civil disobedience is a death penalty offense.