From what I understand, the cops had the wrong address. The hoop you wanted BLM to jump through was to not interact with police. I applied that hoop to this incident. Hilarity ensues.
Uh, wut?
I prefaced my statement with "IIRC" and other variants to make it clear that I am not 100% sure and may have some details wrong. The link below echoes the basic gist of what I said. Seems that the ex-BF was the drug dealer, therefore wrong house, although the current BF did fire shots at the police officer.
So Trayvon Martin should have sued George Zimmerman in Civil Court for violating his civil rights on the basis of profiling him and self-deputizing and stalking Trayvon Martin?
He should've gone the fook home. Teenage pride is one hulluva drug. Can't say I wouldn't have wanted to do the same thing at that age.
By your logic, would the shopkeeper that Michael Brown manhandled have been justified in following him outside the door and clocking him over the head with a baseball bat
We know about Timpa. He was on the Marching Powder. There was no demand for a redress of grievances. The media didn't manufacture the George Floyd story, a bunch of randos filming it sparked grassroots reaction.
Of course they didn't. My point was that stories that are nowhere near as egregious as George Floyd get conflated and are elevated to the national news stage, while incidents that don't fit the narrative do not. Which is why most of us can name 10+ black people who have been killed by police, some of whom share significant blame for their fate (such as Michael Brown and Rashard Brooks), yet most have never heard of Timpa who's killing was practically a mirror image.
Beyond that- I don't recall much in the way of protest after Tyre Nichols was killed . . . . Probably because the officers were black. How unusual
The reaction to the brutal death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old, after he was stopped by police has been strangely muted. Nichols, a father-of-one, died of his injuries on 10 January, three days after a confrontation with five black officers in Memphis, Tennessee. Lawyers for the family said...
www.spectator.co.uk