Of course these murdering officers were racist! The one who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes had 17 formal complaints made against him in the past 19 years. One incident involved him shooting a black man in the stomach, who thankfully survived.
Do you really imagine that an unarmed white man would be taken out from his car and murdered on the street for forging a check or using a fake $20 note (not clear what the alleged crime was yet)?
No, you don’t know what was in his head–whether he killed because he hates black people or killed because he’s a bad cop. A lot of things that are blamed on ‘racism’ are nothing but human nature. Some people are lousy human beings and treat everyone badly.
Yes, white men
are killed by police, too–and in greater numbers.
• Chart: How Many People Are Killed by Police in the U.S.? | Statista
Or look at this site:
https://killedbypolice.net/kbp2020/
Yes, black men are killed in greater ratio. But the fact remains that hundreds of white men ARE killed by police every year. What happened to George Floyd is a terrible tragedy and the cops need to be held accountable. But it is not true that this ‘would never’ happen to a white man. It has, it does, it will.
And this matters, because the anger is coming partly from the mistaken belief that black people are being targeted, that it only happens to them.
The media is to blame for this mistaken belief by the way they trumpet every single death of a black man at police hands and rarely if ever mention all the white men dying the same way.
As to the riots–no destruction of property is never okay. And I’m appalled at those who seem to take the attitude of, ‘you get what you deserve because you didn’t make the world perfect.’
Know what? I’m incapable of making the world perfect. I’m incapable of solving all the world’s problems or changing fallen human nature. No one is. That doesn’t mean everyone is racist or ‘doesn’t care.’ It definitely does not mean that people deserve what they’re getting.
I know someone who was working with the medics last night and told us about a girl with her jaw nearly wrenched off her face. Did that girl deserve that because she didn’t somehow stop bad cops?
There are now business owners destroyed, millions of dollars of damage, more deaths, untold injuries, an apartment building burned down that would have housed low income people, buses are shut down, and stores are closing at 6 pm every night. Some just aren’t opening at all.
That means a whole lot of people–MANY of them the minorities that those excusing this destruction claim to care about–are now out of work, living in war zones, scared for their lives, lost a potential home they could have afforded, and have no way to get food.
These riots are not gaining anyone’s sympathy and they’re making life harder not just for white people but for thousands of minorities.
Furthermore, most if not all of these looters and rioters are in it for a night out, for the chance to get free stuff with little chance of getting caught. Most of those people couldn’t care less about George Floyd.
