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Biden calls for justice after footage released of police killing Black woman
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
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Yeah but her race is irrelevant to her behaviours on the night she died.
If you watch the tape, and want to say that her race is relevant to her behaviours..m that's pretty racist.
And her behaviours are undoubtedly deserving of asking for id, and her threatening behaviour is absolutely worth self defense.
Unless you think a black cop would have taken that water?
Or that a cop of any race would have taken that from a white person.. or a Hispanic person.
Huh? why would I argue a point that you brought up?
Why try strawman me? to argue with someone else? Goargue with someone else if you want to argue their points.
I watched the video. She brought it entirely upon herself Unfortunately. She literally called 911 and then behaved that way. Probably suicide by cop, but who knows. You can never know that kind of thing.
There is no fucking way that you can watch that video and conclude that she "brought it on herself".
She literally called 911.. and then behaved like that.. and threatened to throw boiling water at the cops she called for asking for i.d.
Makes sense to me
She didn't threaten to do shit, you just want to exonerate trigger-happy cop gangsters.
Did you not watch it?
That's sad.
Letting people make you feel so strongly about something that you didn't even watch. There's. I way you can watch that footage and think she didn't threaten the police.
That is horrific. I hope some day you watch the footage and feel bad for this.
Wow. How incredibly horrible. I'm reporting sorry.
But that's too far.
A three day old account comes in here saying that racism should not be addressed, then proceeds to defend a cop that murdered a poor old women in her house, and then gets upset and starts trying to report everyone lmao.
Fucking gold.
And what a wonderful impression you've been making
You can check my comments. I'm quite liberal.
I'm just.. not American. I'm Irish. We don't have American gun problems. (Although I have lived there)
I'm sorry my comments upset you but it is extremely interesting to see how many people immediately jumped to attacks and making up things I said instead of actually engaging with any of my reasonings.
I might leave Lemmy soon, if that's how this place works. Bully people out immediately..
Cool story bro
fucking lol
not if the cop views her as someone beneath him and thinks she deserves violence due to her skin. fuck that cop.
lol her "threatening behavior"?!?!
She picked up a pot of boiling water and said 'i will remake you in the name of jesus/christ.'
Can't remember the exact wording. And that was after all of what she said and did before that moment. Did you watch the footage? You can see her behaviour.
Why do you think her race is more relevant than... Her gender?
Or hair colour? Serious questions. What brings you to her conclusion?