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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink28•9 months agoToo bad he wasn’t a big white man with a knife! Then the cops would have tried to talk him down!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•9 months agoI hear what you’re saying, and black people are targeted disproportionally for these sorts of extra judicial killings, but there are plenty of videos of white people being executed by cops and also facing the same cushy “repercussions”. If minorities aren’t safe then nobody is safe.
Too bad he wasn’t a big white man with a knife! Then the cops would have tried to talk him down!
I hear what you’re saying, and black people are targeted disproportionally for these sorts of extra judicial killings, but there are plenty of videos of white people being executed by cops and also facing the same cushy “repercussions”.
If minorities aren’t safe then nobody is safe.