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re: Protests blowing up in Downtown Birmingham
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:17 am to Roll Tide Ravens
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:17 am to Roll Tide Ravens
This post is not directed toward Roll Tide Ravens or any other specific person.
Had Floyd been white instead of black and had the officer with his knee on the neck been black instead of white...would there have been any protests in Birmingham? If the location of the murder been closer to Birmingham than Minneapolis, would that have made any difference? If Obama had been the president instead of Trump, would there have been such an uproar?
Joseph Hutcheson was murdered in Dallas, TX (about 400 miles closer to Birmingham)during the Obama administration (2015). The officer with his knee on the neck was black. Hutcheson was white. Three of the 5 other officers on the scene were also black. The murder was caught on tape.
There was no national media frenzy. There were no protests in Birmingham (or scattered around the rest of the nation). There were no riots.
The murderous actions of both officers were unacceptable and criminal. The actions of the other officers in both cases were unacceptable and criminal. All people across this country should be furious about the police brutality and that the brutality rose to the level of murder in both cases.
Why did one event gain national attention and outrage but the other did not?
Media and political manipulation with a purpose! The opportunistic rioting and looting destroys the effectiveness of the protests. The protests are reasonable and would be far more effective if the opportunistic aspects were not piled on top to dilute the attention from the evil of what happened in Minneapolis and similar events of brutality in other areas.
Had Floyd been white instead of black and had the officer with his knee on the neck been black instead of white...would there have been any protests in Birmingham? If the location of the murder been closer to Birmingham than Minneapolis, would that have made any difference? If Obama had been the president instead of Trump, would there have been such an uproar?
Joseph Hutcheson was murdered in Dallas, TX (about 400 miles closer to Birmingham)during the Obama administration (2015). The officer with his knee on the neck was black. Hutcheson was white. Three of the 5 other officers on the scene were also black. The murder was caught on tape.
There was no national media frenzy. There were no protests in Birmingham (or scattered around the rest of the nation). There were no riots.
The murderous actions of both officers were unacceptable and criminal. The actions of the other officers in both cases were unacceptable and criminal. All people across this country should be furious about the police brutality and that the brutality rose to the level of murder in both cases.
Why did one event gain national attention and outrage but the other did not?
Media and political manipulation with a purpose! The opportunistic rioting and looting destroys the effectiveness of the protests. The protests are reasonable and would be far more effective if the opportunistic aspects were not piled on top to dilute the attention from the evil of what happened in Minneapolis and similar events of brutality in other areas.
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Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:33 am to Tw1st3d
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Why did one event gain national attention and outrage but the other did not?
Media and political manipulation with a purpose! The opportunistic rioting and looting destroys the effectiveness of the protests. The protests are reasonable and would be far more effective if the opportunistic aspects were not piled on top to dilute the attention from the evil of what happened in Minneapolis and similar events of brutality in other areas.
This is why this whole series of events is so odd to me. Studies of police deaths largely show that there is no racial bias with regard to the use of deadly force by police. However, it is these, and only these, types of events that trigger these mass racial protests.
It would be more logical to follow these events with a wide-ranging national examination of policing in America. Instead, it immediately devolves into a cacophany of racial animus and self-loathing.
Posted on 6/8/20 at 11:35 am to Tw1st3d
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All people across this country should be furious about the police brutality and that the brutality rose to the level of murder in both cases.
They are. While the movement is titled Black Lives Matter, the speakers at every protest I've watched have made it a point to mention white people have also been unjustly killed by police. And if the reformation goals they seek are attained, it will also benefit white people.
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