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1. I used to use police forces around the world as models for how American police could and should behave. That's no longer necessary. American police, with their ethical, humane, measured treatment of white mass murderers show us that they know how to make peaceful arrests.
2. This question of, "what happened before that video began" is a nefarious one - deeply rooted in anti-Black racism. It suggests that when we see an officer choking the life out of a young Black man in a prom tux, that something COULD warrant such a chokehold. It can't.
3. When we see police running and kicking the face of an unarmed handcuffed subdued suspect who is peacefully laying on the ground, I don't need to know what happened before a man's face was treated like a football to know that it was dead wrong.
4. When I see cops throw a woman on the floor of a Waffle House, strip her naked, and mount her, then choke her, I don't need to see what happened before the police arrived to know that what I just saw was wrong and excessive.
5. When I learn that police in Detroit tasered a child riding a 4 wheeler through his neighborhood from a moving police car, while the child is riding full speed, killing that child and shatter every bone in his face, I don't need to know what happened beforehand. #DamonGrimes
6. When I learn that Louisiana police literally choked this young brother to death, I don't need to see footage of what happened before they murdered him to know that police should never choke ANYONE to death.
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7. At the root of this question of, "But what happened before the video was being filmed" is the poisonous thinking that "Black misbehavior" warrants brutality and murder without trial or due process. That's the bedrock of lynching.
8. Because day after day after day, we see American police peacefully arrest fully armed white men who've actually murdered people. Those men then get meals, attorneys, doctors, evaluations, compassionate op-eds, then trials by a jury of their peers.
9. The operating philosophy of American policing is that violent, murderous white men deserve safe, measured, thorough policing but that Black people, no matter the situation, be it an argument at Waffle House, or the music too loud, simply don't deserve such fair, safe treatment
A video a while back was making the rounds as you could see what appeared to be a cop shooting a fleeing man turning around. The outrage was everywhere until a closer inspection showed that the man was getting a gun out. Policing is hard, let's not make this always about racism.
That is the excuse they always use to justify police abuse against African-Americans.
Shaun, love your work, I'm lucky to live in a country where our Police aren't regularly armed, but do you think that the militarisation of the Police forces has something to do with the alienation between the people and the Police in the US?
Are the police that are involved in these incidents tested for steroids?
The defender of police abuse they take a play book right thought of Nazi Germany.
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