As I said, prejudiced, not racist.
You are prejudiced for the police. You grant them all kinds of qualities that they have only displayed in movies.
We don't know what happened!
You might not, but I and lots of other people do. An unarmed black man was repeatedly shot to death. The person who shot him got let off by the system he worked for, because he worked for them.
That he was black should have no bearing on this case. But when a guy with a BB gun in Walmart, a kid with a BB gun in the park, a guy on the corner in New York are also killed nonchalantly and they all happen to be black, then we see an issue and a way of correlating it.
I don't think the black aspect is the overriding aspect, I think that black people happen to more often meet the overriding aspect and therefore are the image of that aspect.
The overriding issue is that America is a caste system. Different strokes for different folks. Rich? You get to drape a jacket over the handcuffs as they walk you out. Poor? Your state appointed lawyer will advice against mentioning police brutality.
Sure you can say, 95-5 cops don't think I'm going to kill a guy in the locker room.
What I can say is that they suit up, swap stories, are part of a click that has been shown it has unmitigated power over another click. They have a series of categories and some they can deal with however they want. This is what I'm not ok with.
I don't think we should have a category A citizen:
Treat like Mother Teresa.
B:
Don't leave any marks.
C:
Rape, murder and torture them.
You say we don't know what happen, but we do know that he was shot repeatedly to death in the street. We know the shooting was sanctioned by the legal system. We know that for this category, this is what to expect. And that is something we should protest.
But what we should really protest is the entire system which produces millions of people moving through the legal system at all times. That sets up such dangerous criminals and gives them reason to be.
We should see it starts by making petty crimes serious, but only applicable to the poor. It makes stuff kids do at school arrestable, by searching kids in the park and streets and then charging them for smokes or a dime bag of weed. It ends with Phatscotty having guns pointed at him because stuff he wrote online.
America should have about 1/5 of the people in the legal system. The crimes should have both harsher and more effective measures towards bringing the numbers down. By this I mean, much faster executions, and a prison system which looks to reduce crime not be a gateway to it. A lot more money should go from enforcement to community programs.
This dangerous beat is promoted by the state. That you agree with it is to show that that is the type of state you want and therefore: we don't know what happened merely means, I'm ok with it.
