I know there are a lot of threads on this and I know that it's arguable that this could go in one of them, but this is something that I'm hoping to reach people who aren't following it super closely. If your not, that's fine, but I want you to understand what this is actually about. George Floyd's death started these riots but this is the culmination of hundreds and hundreds of white racist police being able to shoot black people for no reason. No reason at all. And they've been getting away with it. Under some pressure, but they have. Even now, only one officer was arrested for Floyd's death, when atleast 4 took part in it, because while the state realized that the man who stepped on his neck had to be given over as sacrificial lamb, they are still withholding justice as much as they are able to, and even now the seeds of dismissal and doubt are sowed with the medical examiner report claiming Floyd died of heart issues and possible intoxicants. Because apparently if he didn't have those, he'd be just fine being axphyxiated for 9 minutes, apparently.
So here's what I just want you all to know - everything that's happening, all the burned buildings, all the violent outbreaks, all the destroyed property and all the damaged lives....all that is happening because the police wants to keep killing black people for no reason. They want to protect themselves from the consequences of the murders they know they will do in the future, even if they don't know who they will murder yet.
I don't know when and if someone will ever ask you about their opinion or what opinion of theirs you'll have to deal with and things are confusing and there's so many stories coming out and you don't know which will be proven false within an hour or what is going on. It's all just....fucking chaos.
But that chaos is built on the bedrock that Police want to keep killing black people for no reason, and people are finally telling them "No, you can't." That's what this is about.
So here's what I just want you all to know - everything that's happening, all the burned buildings, all the violent outbreaks, all the destroyed property and all the damaged lives....all that is happening because the police wants to keep killing black people for no reason. They want to protect themselves from the consequences of the murders they know they will do in the future, even if they don't know who they will murder yet.
I don't know when and if someone will ever ask you about their opinion or what opinion of theirs you'll have to deal with and things are confusing and there's so many stories coming out and you don't know which will be proven false within an hour or what is going on. It's all just....fucking chaos.
But that chaos is built on the bedrock that Police want to keep killing black people for no reason, and people are finally telling them "No, you can't." That's what this is about.
