I just saw on the news where a Packer player said he was “scared”.
Why???
If you are pulled over, don’t fight the cops, be respectful, and there will be no reason to be scared.

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This made me laugh! But the sad truth is, it’s 100% TRUE!
It’s what I have been saying all along.

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Brandon Tatum

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How DARE him!!!😂

Oh....:and guess who showed up in Kenosha???
Yup....Jesse Jackson. I guess AL Sharpton was busy.
Can’t let the racism end!

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It's true. If we just obey the law, do as instructed, everything should go smooth.

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It's lamentable that some are so stuck in their safe little white bubbles that they think this is how the world works.

What crime did Breonna Taylor commit? Sleeping soundly in her own house?
What crime did Atatiana Jefferson commit? She left her front door open, and her neighbor called the police on her. The police shot and killed her through her window.
What crime did Stephon Clark commit? He was shot multiple times because police thought he had a gun. He had a mobile phone.
What crime did Botham Jean commit? He was shot and killed after an off duty police officer broke into HIS home, thinking it was hers.
What crime did Philando Castile commit? He was shot and killed during a traffic stop after informing the police he was in possession of a firearm he legally owned - he did everything exactly as suggested by the paternalists in this thread, and was still killed.

And these are just recent examples. I can keep going if you like.

Even in cases where a crime was allegedly committed, the use of excessive force is a problem that we need to talk about. George Floyd was held on the ground and strangled to death because he may have counterfeited a $20 bill. Eric Garner was strangled to death because he may have been selling loose cigarettes. Just a couple days ago, Ramon Lopez was held for 6 minutes on the blacktop in the scorching Arizona heat, he died moments later in a cop car. His crime? He allegedly stole a drink from a gas station. Again, I can keep going with examples where black people and people of color have been injured or killed due to excessive force. Jacob Blake is not an outlier, he's merely one more example of a systemic problem.

Additionally, it's very telling that there has been not one single mention in this thread of the white supremacist wanna be cop that murdered 2 people and wounded a third during the protests that were sparked by Jacob Blake's death. The little shit that was allowed to walk past the police and drive home to Illinois before being politely taken into custody. This is apparently not concerning to anyone here? But oh boy, if you resist arrest, you'll get what's coming to you!

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People think how things should work, is how they do work. There seems to be a lack of understanding that too often things are not handled how they should have.

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I'll take cryptic bullshit for 400, Alex.

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What was cryptic about it? What was bullshit about it? We all agree if we don't break the law and we do as instructed, everything should go smooth. Trouble is ... you can do everything as asked and still get physically harmed or shot. That is a problem! And it's being made worse by people who think simply doing as instructed is some 100% magic pill to being treated fairly and just.

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Derp sorry I think I misread your position here. Yeah, okay I see where you're going here.

The "just follow the law" and "just obey the police" advice really boils down to "just don't be black and everything will be fine". Police murder and imprison black and people of color at disproportionate rates. But then we have people coming out and say "yeah well just don't ever make the wrong move, don't ever make a mistake, and you won't get murdered", and completely ignoring all the times when black and people of color have done nothing wrong, interact with the police exactly as they should and still get killed. Its a recurring problem and to brush it aside is victim-blaming at it's finest.

Since we're on the Chris Rock twitter kick, here's another



The solution to police killing black folks isn't black folks being even more subservient, it's police in general not being, as Chris explains in the above video, so crazy.

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