For a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.
For a moment, George Floyd's murder changed everything. Those days are gone.
George Floyd's death at the hands of police seemed to mark a turning point in America's race relations, but politics has overtaken the response.
George Floyd 100% did not deserve to die, and it wasn't a tragic mistake that killed him. That's why his death was so shocking.
As someone who used to deal with counterfeit currency, presenting a fake bill is not a crime. The average person has no idea whether a bill is counterfeit and cops definitely don't. There was literally no reason for Derek Chauvin (and the others) to arrest him, let alone choke him to death.
That's why people went nuts. He was killed for no other reason than being a black man. It's as simple as that: some people are totally fine with killing black people because they don't see them as human.
That part of it was just a distraction. I don't care if he had a counterfeit printer at home churning out 20s, no-one deserves to be chocked to death for non violent crimes.
Now if you are running around with knife/gun all bets are off and you might get killed in the process of being restrained.
But again, once you are restrained you should not have a fucker standing on your neck.
As someone who used to deal with counterfeit currency, presenting a fake bill is not a crime.
Did we ever even find out if the bill in question was actually counterfeit?
There was a random right wing Floyd vid on TikTok. The comments were trash and usual right wing talking points and fake news.
I commented “even if he was Hitler, he has the right to trial and not be murdered slowly on the street” and my post was removed.
Great.
The right wing censors everything that is not lockstep with whatever the current message is. They carefully curate their message boards while decrying when others do it.
I used to use Reddit a lot and I talked a lot of shit over the years. The only time I got a temp ban was for posting that the GOP should take out Ron Desantis like the dirty diaper he is on a Pro-Trump discussion.
When I pointed out my comment was rather tame compared to the others ones on the post the mods claimed I was harassing them and tried to get my account banned. It was insane but I learned an important lesson.
Reddit mods are insane. I pointed out the hypocrisy of the the r/news mods in that they would delete any story that didn't suck of Israel, while keeping the pro Israel post open and unlocked, they fuckin banned me. Then when I complained to the reddit admins they permabanned me. Reddit is a cesspool and I hope they go broke.
We are ruled by depraved monsters (mods)
That's because mods is actually an acronym
Monsters Of Depraved Sadism
There was an opportunity to change things, in fact there is still plenty of opportunity to change things, but that would upset the current power structure so you're supposed to be satisfied with this empty gesture instead:
That's all they ever give, hollow empty platitudes.
The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.
Malcolm X.
For a moment Rodney King's beating changed everyting, too.
The USA is a racist country. It was founded on racism, built with racism, and now thrives on racism. That's never gonna change, and it deserves to perish in fire.
The USA is a racist country. It was founded on racism, built with racism, and now thrives on racism.
Like every other country ever.
That's never gonna change, and it deserves to perish in fire.
Careful you're going to cut yourself with all that edge.
Lmao, liberals
Your semi weekly reminder that Biden's response to the police brutalizing peaceful protestors was to proudly give them more funding.
Arr you seriously suggesting that George Floyd's murder was justified? As for your other examples, people were angry about that as well.
For one thing, you can reply directly to the comment.
For another, in no way did I suggest George Floyd deserved to die.
Crazy how it's playing out exactly how I thought, cherrypicking because you're too stupid to read.
TL;DR: BLACK LIVES MATTER and the people who rioted after George Floyd's murder have set civil rights back by decades. Reactionary politics are cancer.
This is what happens when you prop up a career criminal as a martyr.
George Floyd was a bad man. Is anyone actually surprised that nothing good came from the riots following his death?
Breonna Taylor's murder comes to mind. That woman was an innocent and upstanding member of society. She was a fucking EMT and the reaction to her being murdered by cops blindfiring through her window after a no-knock breach was fucking mute compared to the rabidity that people showed after George Floyd was murdered. This was two and a half months before Floyd's murder.
Where were the riots following her death? Oh, right, it didn't happen for another two fucking months because it was largely unnoticed outside of Louisiana until CNN released s story about it. Even then they weren't as bad as what happened after Floyd's death.
The wild disparity between the two events can be summed up quite simply - Floyd's murder was recorded and shown immediately, Breonna's murder was not.
Reactionary politics are cancerous. Of course things have only gotten worse - the idiots responsible for the riots provided conservatives with all the talking points they needed to make the other side look fucking rabid.
That's not even mentioning the bad actors who jumped on the event to cause havoc. Yes I'm talking about the white people dressed all in black throwing molotovs and chanting "black lives matter".
I don't even know why I'm writing this, I guarantee I'll get responses that completely ignore the points I'm making and cherrypick. Let's see.
Edit: what a surprise, reactionaries reacting. Crazy.
I don't care about the particular person being targeted, the police aren't supposed to murder someone just because they feel like it. If they're a first time offender or a "career criminal" they shouldn't be killed unless there's no feasible alternatives.
Do you honestly think there would have been meaningful lasting change if people propped up Breonna as a martyr instead? Why hasn't that happened for any of the other well-publicized deaths of upstanding citizens? Why haven't things like consent decrees and civilian oversight boards been enough to curb police violence and rights abuse, especially against minority groups?
The police didn't even bother pretending they were sorry and would pinkie-swear to reform, they flat out demanded that they be allowed to act with impunity and then just decided they didn't want to enforce the law at all anymore if the public was going to be angry with them. Are there instances of the police stating they want to improve their perception and relationship with the public and "the reactionaries" just deciding to riot instead? It should never have come to the point that a large amount of people (across the country) felt rioting was the most appropriate move, but since it did I think the failing was just that it didn't go far enough. There's plenty of evidence to conclude that the police and their enablers will not voluntarily reform and will need be forced against their will.
And as far as providing conservatives with talking points, there's literally no situation where they won't just use whatever narrative they want; even if it involves space lasers or child trafficking in a pizzeria basement.
There it is again, reading comprehension is a dying concept I swear to god.
In no way did I suggest Floyd should have been killed. I pointed out that the person people rioted over was a genuinely bad person. Anyone who threatens to kill a pregnant woman at gun point is a bad person. Period, I don't care how hard their lives might have been or what led to that point, that is not a man you should make into a martyr.
I absolutely think that who you're fighting for matters. Yes, conservatives will spin things however they can. That doesn't change the fact that the same reactionaries responsible for the riots as a result of George Floyd's murder were completely unaware of something worse that happened. I remember seeing Breonna Taylor's murder pop up in my feed within a few days if it happening. It's not like they didn't have the same tools to see exactly what I did, and yet the dumb motherfuckers did nothing for two months.
Now there's the added bonus of the irrefutable fact that George Floyd was a bad person. When you give conservatives something real to use as ammunition it only bolsters their ability to twist the truth and push their racist agenda.
You can be mad at me all you want, I'm right. Was what happened to both of them a perfect display of the festering cancer within police forces across the United States? Not only that, but a display of how wrong minorities are treated by those forces? Absolutely, as I've never once stated or believed that Floyd should have been murdered.
He's just not a man worth fighting for.
I think the difference be between Briana's and George's killing and why one got the limelight was two fold. One could have maybe explained away as an honest mistake or a bad situation. The other was pretty blatant malice. George being the latter. Outrage takes time to build and can dissipate quickly. It maybe the public had just reached a tipping point after months and years of unlawful killing by police of black people, mostly male, mostly young.
I think the offense people took with your reply is due to the historic "he was no Angel" excuse. As a way to justify the inexcusable, cold blooded murder.