I bolded the part that I think is key here, because the reality is.. that DOES happen, and it happens to people of colour. Mainly black people. (I'm not saying it never happens to white people, but SIGNIFICANTLY less).
Do you have a source for that?
And it HAS been happening and it has been caught on video multiple times. Michael Brown was not resisting arrest, he was running away because Darren Wilson was getting his gun out after he tried to forcefully pull Michael Brown into his van (?? professional much??). Every eyewitness is saying the same thing.
I hadn't heard that. How many witnesses were there that said this?
The official autopsy supports that this happened like why are people resisting that, it's an official autopsy.
I also hadn't heard this.
They are choosing to believe otherwise.
Up to this point, the only thing I've chosen to believe is that, in light of a lack of evidence, I would presume innocence; this is something I
always do regardless of who is on trial. If the things you're saying are true, that's significant evidence in the other direction, but I hadn't heard of either of these things, possibly because I haven't followed it all that closely. Is there a major news source that has reported these things? If so, a link would be helpful.
Either way, this is one particular anecdote, and if it is the case that the officer acted improperly, I still don't think it's representative of the whole. One of the reasons I
do support body cameras for police is because I feel they will establish that most officers are good people trying to do the right thing and clear up a lot of myths.
Eric Garner was caught on video, murdered by an illegal chokehold. But the officer was still not indicted and there are no consequences and it's because Eric Garner was black.
I don't think that incident had happened when I made my initial post. I completely agree with you on that one. There's no real room for argument in my opinion. Maybe the guy should have surrendered more quickly, but this was a pretty obvious case of gross overuse of force. I think it's much different than the Michael Brown one; there's a video recording that shows pretty clearly what happened. I still don't think it's a race thing, though, I think it's a misuse of police force thing.
Like literally there is no room for discussion. And the reason I decide to avoid people who think this way is because it's not just an opinion or a political standpoint, it's deeply rooted racism, it's my choice if I don't want to associate with people like that and I don't get why you made a point out of that lol.
I think what I've said so far is evidence enough that my perspective has nothing to do with race. I haven't said one thing about anyone's race aside from that I don't think it's a significant factor in what has happened. Everything I've said so far would apply equally if everyone was exactly the same color.
Are there racists talking about this? Of course. The Klan weighed in on it and so did the modern equivalent of the Black Panthers. It's pretty obvious that some of the things being said are racist. I
don't think that's the majority, though, and I don't think you should say that everyone who feels a certain way about the issue has deep-seated issues of racism and avoid them as a result. Even people I know who actually
are prejudiced against a particular race aren't bad people, they're usually just ill-informed and are over-generalizing their bad experiences or those of people they know.
I'll leave you with
this story, which I've always liked.