Caveman33
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I strongly disagree. You seem to have made up your mind, though. It reminds me of when the authorities are convinced of a suspect's guilt and will ignore evidence that points to other suspects in pursuit of a conviction.@Caveman33 I’m not a member of BLM, but I absolutely believe that the issue of police abuse of power is pretty much only important in terms of racism. I’m not interested in any incidents involving white people and I don’t think the media should report them unless highly unusual. However the media should report EVERY questionable behavior by police that involves black people. I’m glad they’re selective about this and they should be,
White people in this country are not subjected to institutionalized racism on a daily basis. Black people and other minorities are. Police do not abuse power against white people as a general rule, but they do against blacks. That’s where the focus needs to be.
A few years ago, I was less informed on this topic. I thought police were generally corrupt and black people received the worst of this corruption. I still think that to a lesser extent. But it was BLM and the shifting victim narratives which piqued my curiosity, or woke me so to speak. The same pattern seemed to repeat through every high profile case. First, Breanna Taylor was a hard working nurse who fell victim to a wrong apartment raid. Then I read court documents and there was ample evidence that she was a drug/money mule for her old boyfriend and her apartment was the intended target for the raid.
Most liberals that I talk to seem to believe the initial narrative, even years after. How many times can one be lied to before they start to question?
@KarmaPolice
You mention the importance of focusing on the big picture and overall stats, rather than getting bogged down by a certain case. I very much agree with this. In fact, last year I broke down the statistics of arrests by race and police killings by race. What I found was that over a 3 year period, the rate of police killings per arrest for whites and blacks were nearly identical.
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