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There are about a dozen or so Sub Saharan African nations with lower homicide rates or equal to that of the USA. Look into Rwanda and Bukina Faso( one of the lowest in the world)
WRONG! Rwanda 167.07 Ranked 39th. 4 times more than United States. They have this thing called google where you can look up stuff. You should try it.
What was his crime anyhow , also theres a lot more videos to see yet that hadn’t been shown . Plus one video shows him sitting on the ground then it jumps to him laying on the ground , what happened in between that ?
The media is editing out the part where he resisted.
There were two or three back cops in the Freddie Gray case and that didn't change the basic narrative.
Well yes. Only white cops can be racist or kill.
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Originally Posted by Chicagoland60426
There are about a dozen or so Sub Saharan African nations with lower homicide rates or equal to that of the USA. Look into Rwanda and Bukina Faso( one of the lowest in the world)
Look at the far right of that graphic. Maybe you missed it...
Yes they are.
Yes it's all true, but acting in the manner that police officer did, undermines the trust in law, the very law that police suppose to represent and protect.
It undermines the trust in any justice.
If the police officer kills a man fearing for his own life, suspecting that he might have a weapon, that's one thing, and this can be understood and justified.
But when you kill a man just because you can, just "to teach him a lesson" when he is already handcuffed and begs for his life - this sends a totally different message.
You're ignoring the whole narrative that this is a racist incident that only happens to one race and is only unacceptable if it happens to one race. Thats the whole reason this is even being discussed. Its not right for this to happen to any race, and just because it happened to a black man doesn't mean it was racist.
The media is editing out the part where he resisted.
Even if he dared initially to resist, we all know what we saw afterwards.
And it was not a *manslaughter* committed by police with concern of their own safety.
Let’s be clear though that most black men will not be treated like this. A black man in business casuals cloths coming from an office will not face this. Police don’t patrol for black men cutting their grass in a middle class neighborhood. This is about the ghetto way more than about race.
We black men who dress in business casual clothes coming from an office can not depend on police telling the difference.
A black Miami doctor was handcuffed outside his home last week while on his way to hand out tents to the city’s homeless during the coronavirus outbreak.
The home security footage appeared to show a police sergeant handcuffing Dr. Armen Henderson, an internal medicine physician at the University of Miami Health System, as he was placing camping tents in his van. According to Henderson, the officer asked him what he was doing and if he was littering – Henderson told him he lived there.
If we're cutting our grass in our middle class neighborhood, we can not depend on the police telling the difference.
Even if he dared initially to resist, we all know what we saw afterwards.
And it was not a *manslaughter* committed by police with concern of their own safety.
It was murder committed in a cold blood.
We don't know he killed him intentionally, so you can't say it was cold blooded murder. All you know is the biased information shared in the media.
NOLINK. I hesitate to say anything because I don't have a link to support what I'm sure I read soon after this killing happened. One article claimed that when the cops tried to put Floyd in the back of the their car, he told them he was claustrophobic and refused to enter the vehicle. I don't recall the source of the claim.
If we're cutting our grass in our middle class neighborhood, we can not depend on the police telling the difference.
That doctor was not dressed in business casual clothes and was not coming from an office (It would be a hospital not office BTW). Did you even read the article before posting this crap?? Apparently not. Try again race baiter.
I read comments from someone claiming to be in the area who said that he allegedly passed a fake currency and the call to police was over that. I have no idea if this is true or not, but if it is, how easy is it to get fake currency in change from a store and spend it at another location without realizing it's fake? Should you be attacked by police if that were to happen to you?
However, I have seen it reported as forgery, and I am not sure passing a counterfeit bill counts as forgery. Hopefully, the full story may come out as the police are being tried for the murder.
LOL.
Then there was the eighth-grade black girl who was arrested at school for passing a 2-dollar bill buying lunch at school because nobody at the school--or the police--knew that the 2-dollar bill is perfectly legal currency.
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