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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
