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Unfortunately, the "police only kill black people" narrative is distracting from this reality. If people could focus on the fact that the police is unnecessaril
by dudul 5y ago
Unfortunately, the "police only kill black people" narrative is distracting from this reality. If people could focus on the fact that the police is unnecessarily violent and lethal towards anyone it could change quickly. Focusing on black people basically makes 80% of the population feel - wrongly - like they don't need to worry about the problem.
And yeah yeah, "ratio something disproportionate blabla". I dont even care. The reality is if you want to be pragmatic and fix the problem you need to get buy in and support from as many people as possible. You need all people to understand that anybody can get gunned down for effectively no reasons.
- 2xpress 5y agoIndeed, Kelly Thomas, brutally murdered by Fullerton police, was not black. And furthermore, his dad was a police officer. Sometimes I wonder if BLM may actually be a pro-criminal-police conspiracy to divide the population by re-framing the police brutality problem into a racial issue.
- Enginerrrd 5y agoI would be downright shocked if deliberate efforts haven't been made by bad actors, foreign or domestic, to give a spotlight to the loudest & most dubious voices inside both BLM and those opposed to it.
- Dma54rhs 5y agoWell they have, Mueller investigation revealed Russians ran the blm social media show as well, for "whatever" reason your media rarely talked about it but you're free to read yourself from the original report :)