• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So for context my local PD dealt with a fine gentleman who attacked a security guard in his car dual wielding a hatchet and metal pipe. They spent several hours trying to talk him down before charging him with a shield and arresting him without much further ado. If you guessed he was white you guessed correctly.

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        4 months ago

        PD as a broader category are racist because they will spend hours and risk gory death to avoid killing a mass shooter or a maniac with a hatchet but will shoot a black child on sight. My local PD’s efforts to save the lunatic are actually commendable and just. I’m using that as an obvious contrast to behavior in situations like this one. Their commendable behavior proves that its entirely possible and reasonable to preserve life even in harrowing situations. The tragedy is that other cops as a group don’t show the same bravery when a black child’s life is in the balance.

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        4 months ago

        Were you asleep for the last decade? We’ve seen over and over how people of color get treated by cops.