If I may.... let's be sure not to make the issue 100% about the ultimate price, which is a killing. That is far from their only beef. It is the worst scenario, for sure, but not the only one... The allegations also include:
- Mistreatment by the police
- Targeting by the police
- Unfair sentencing in the system
- Unfair bail practices that lock up millions of non-violent people
- Over-policing
- Brutality (which includes beatings, physical violence, etc but not life threatening)
It's a common tactic to take a large issue and try to boil it all the down into a specific scenario. You guys have taken this all the way to the amount of people who are black, who didn't have a gun or knife, that were shot, and killed, by a white police officer. You've, intentionally or not, qualified it down to make it sound like it's a small issue. It's not, but that seems to be the path we are going.
The excuses that are made are, quite honestly, pretty disturbing as well. Eric Garner was flat out murdered by the cops. This guy was shot 7 times in the back at point blank range.
There is also racist violence against blacks that isn't done by the police, like Ahmaud Arbury. Some of you guys went every which way to defend two guys who chased him down in their truck, with confederate flags, ran him over, murdered him in the street, and called him a "ni$$er" over his body... Some of you defended those guys tooth and nail.
The black community flat out has to put up with a lot, its a big issue, that you guys are trying to turn into a small one.
Just my two cents.
