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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
There you go again, implying that it was somehow the victims fault that he died.
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Am I? If you leave you car unlocked and get valuables stolen from it, (or locked and valuables on show) I wouldn't take the blame away from the people that stole said items. Its still stupid to leave valuables on show in your car though, just as its stupid to resist arrest and run away from the Police, but I ain't saying he deserved to die by the beating he got. Though you can question the actions he took without actually blaming him for being dead.
It's simple logic to be honest.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Spoken like a white man.
I think you have no idea what it’s like to view these encounters from the perspective of someone who is twice as likely to be shot and killed by police as an ethnically white person.*
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...oups-rcna17169
* disclaimer - I’m a white man so I don’t know what it feels like either. But I believe it’s possible to infer a little by reference to statistics and personal testimony. I also believe it’s important that we privileged few try to do so. |
Isn't that just slightly racist? Especially considering you don't actually know me or my skin colour.
I ask again, at what percentage risk of being harmed was he at if he had complied? Considering the vast majority of Police stops never even hit the news.