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Miram · 31-35, F
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[quote]When video footage was released Friday of a white Mesa, Ariz., police officer shooting dead a white man after the victim begged for his life while crawling on the floor, it was Black Lives Matter activists who called his death an outrage. The All Lives Matter crowd said nothing about Daniel Shaver's violent demise because All Lives Matter isn't a thing. It's just cynical opposition to the thing that is Black Lives Matter.
You know it's true. If you're wrongly shot by the police nobody shouting "All Lives Matter" is going to speak up for you, march for you, or even write a tweet describing your death as a disgrace. You've got a much better chance getting sympathy from somebody chanting Black Lives Matter even in the case that you aren't black.
A main argument from Black Lives Matter activists is that police, in general, are given too much latitude to kill and have all manner of excuses made for them when they do. It doesn't always take a black person getting killed to see that. After his defense attorney argued that Philip Brailsford, the officer who killed Shaver, acted as he'd been trained to act, a jury acquitted him of murder.
Deray Mckesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist who was wrongly arrested in Baton Rouge while protesting Alton Sterling's death at the hands of police, tweeted Friday, "We talk about the disproportionate violence of the police towards people of color because it's true. It's also true that the police kill white citizens too. Police violence is everyone's problem. #DanielShaver should be alive today."[/quote]
https://www.nola.com/opinions/article_4f6138fe-ea8c-551b-9e60-9e99feacacf2.html
[quote]When video footage was released Friday of a white Mesa, Ariz., police officer shooting dead a white man after the victim begged for his life while crawling on the floor, it was Black Lives Matter activists who called his death an outrage. The All Lives Matter crowd said nothing about Daniel Shaver's violent demise because All Lives Matter isn't a thing. It's just cynical opposition to the thing that is Black Lives Matter.
You know it's true. If you're wrongly shot by the police nobody shouting "All Lives Matter" is going to speak up for you, march for you, or even write a tweet describing your death as a disgrace. You've got a much better chance getting sympathy from somebody chanting Black Lives Matter even in the case that you aren't black.
A main argument from Black Lives Matter activists is that police, in general, are given too much latitude to kill and have all manner of excuses made for them when they do. It doesn't always take a black person getting killed to see that. After his defense attorney argued that Philip Brailsford, the officer who killed Shaver, acted as he'd been trained to act, a jury acquitted him of murder.
Deray Mckesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist who was wrongly arrested in Baton Rouge while protesting Alton Sterling's death at the hands of police, tweeted Friday, "We talk about the disproportionate violence of the police towards people of color because it's true. It's also true that the police kill white citizens too. Police violence is everyone's problem. #DanielShaver should be alive today."[/quote]
https://www.nola.com/opinions/article_4f6138fe-ea8c-551b-9e60-9e99feacacf2.html
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It is true that more black people get killed by police but its also true white people do as well. This has been a huge issue in America for an extremely long time, I don't get why now everyone's acting up, is it the lockdown? Black lives DO matter, ALL lives matter, this crazy shit is not doing anything good and yet apparently that's what they're fighting for? People are fucking morons, Americans are fucking insane, wake the hell up
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
This happened in 2016; why did you wait until now to say something? Maybe you can get Baby-trump, the thug, to announce this is a good day for Tony like he did for George Floyd.
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@thephoenix And, you forgot to mention when Baby-trump, the thug announced on prime time public TV that he in no way knew anything about paying off Stormy Daniels for her silence about slapping his ass with a magazine cover that had his picture on it among other extramarital activities, and then it turned out he not only signed the hush money check, but had a lengthy strategy conversation with his attorney about the best way to make the "secret" payment. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL 😎
thephoenix · M
@MarkPaul Fake news, Stormy the gold digger was never able to verify her story. Monica was able to verify her story when Billy Boy shot his load all over her dress.
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@thephoenix Fake news; there is a clear copy of the hush money check Baby-trump the thug signed (his signature), confirmation from his then "good guy" attorney Michael Cohen that Baby-trump was in on it, and video of Baby-trump denying it all on national public TV. It's been confirmed, verified, and vilified. It will continue to be done so, along with Billy Boy's similar transgressions. Now, go grab some unsolicited pussy and make your hero proud... but only if you lie about it after you get caught.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
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User41 · 36-40, M
Well I don’t like gingers...
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MushroomFaerie nailed it in her answer. I personally think that both the right and left are choreographed by a malevolent force, which these days can afford to be more visible than in previous times when the general populace was more clear thinking and objective.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
So you want to live under a government or society that makes either of these right???
I didn’t say anything
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
two different reacts
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
So sad