TL;DR: BLACK LIVES MATTER and the people who rioted after George Floyd’s murder have set civil rights back by decades. Reactionary politics are cancer.
This is what happens when you prop up a career criminal as a martyr.
George Floyd was a bad man. Is anyone actually surprised that nothing good came from the riots following his death?
Breonna Taylor’s murder comes to mind. That woman was an innocent and upstanding member of society. She was a fucking EMT and the reaction to her being murdered by cops blindfiring through her window after a no-knock breach was fucking mute compared to the rabidity that people showed after George Floyd was murdered. This was two and a half months before Floyd’s murder.
Where were the riots following her death? Oh, right, it didn’t happen for another two fucking months because it was largely unnoticed outside of Louisiana until CNN released s story about it. Even then they weren’t as bad as what happened after Floyd’s death.
The wild disparity between the two events can be summed up quite simply - Floyd’s murder was recorded and shown immediately, Breonna’s murder was not.
Reactionary politics are cancerous. Of course things have only gotten worse - the idiots responsible for the riots provided conservatives with all the talking points they needed to make the other side look fucking rabid.
That’s not even mentioning the bad actors who jumped on the event to cause havoc. Yes I’m talking about the white people dressed all in black throwing molotovs and chanting “black lives matter”.
I don’t even know why I’m writing this, I guarantee I’ll get responses that completely ignore the points I’m making and cherrypick. Let’s see.
Edit: what a surprise, reactionaries reacting. Crazy.
I think the difference be between Briana’s and George’s killing and why one got the limelight was two fold. One could have maybe explained away as an honest mistake or a bad situation. The other was pretty blatant malice. George being the latter.
Outrage takes time to build and can dissipate quickly. It maybe the public had just reached a tipping point after months and years of unlawful killing by police of black people, mostly male, mostly young.
I think the offense people took with your reply is due to the historic “he was no Angel” excuse. As a way to justify the inexcusable, cold blooded murder.
TL;DR: BLACK LIVES MATTER and the people who rioted after George Floyd’s murder have set civil rights back by decades. Reactionary politics are cancer.
This is what happens when you prop up a career criminal as a martyr.
George Floyd was a bad man. Is anyone actually surprised that nothing good came from the riots following his death?
Breonna Taylor’s murder comes to mind. That woman was an innocent and upstanding member of society. She was a fucking EMT and the reaction to her being murdered by cops blindfiring through her window after a no-knock breach was fucking mute compared to the rabidity that people showed after George Floyd was murdered. This was two and a half months before Floyd’s murder.
Where were the riots following her death? Oh, right, it didn’t happen for another two fucking months because it was largely unnoticed outside of Louisiana until CNN released s story about it. Even then they weren’t as bad as what happened after Floyd’s death.
The wild disparity between the two events can be summed up quite simply - Floyd’s murder was recorded and shown immediately, Breonna’s murder was not.
Reactionary politics are cancerous. Of course things have only gotten worse - the idiots responsible for the riots provided conservatives with all the talking points they needed to make the other side look fucking rabid.
That’s not even mentioning the bad actors who jumped on the event to cause havoc. Yes I’m talking about the white people dressed all in black throwing molotovs and chanting “black lives matter”.
I don’t even know why I’m writing this, I guarantee I’ll get responses that completely ignore the points I’m making and cherrypick. Let’s see.
Edit: what a surprise, reactionaries reacting. Crazy.
I think the difference be between Briana’s and George’s killing and why one got the limelight was two fold. One could have maybe explained away as an honest mistake or a bad situation. The other was pretty blatant malice. George being the latter. Outrage takes time to build and can dissipate quickly. It maybe the public had just reached a tipping point after months and years of unlawful killing by police of black people, mostly male, mostly young.
I think the offense people took with your reply is due to the historic “he was no Angel” excuse. As a way to justify the inexcusable, cold blooded murder.