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[MadMojoMonkey]

It was the first time in Minnesota that it happened.

I was relieved to hear the verdict, but FFS, a 13 yo black girl was killed by cops in the past week, and she was the one who called the cops in the first place.

That's on top of the 2 "Oops. Thought is was my tazer." shootings in the past month.

It's still a rate of about 1 black person killed by a cop every 3 days in the US over the past year, so it's not like a huge amount of progress is being made.


We need more (peaceful) protests. We need this to keep being raged at. We need to address the absolute shitstorm that is the US view on crime and punishment as a whole. The system is literally designed to strip the right to vote by black Americans by turning black culture into felony offenses. It's designed to keep poor people poor and to marginalize certain groups. It's designed to isolate those poor and marginalized people from the greater society and make it nearly impossible for them to re-enter.

I mean: What is it about Americans that makes us need to imprison such a vast swath of our people? Is it our freedom? Do we really believe in freedom? Do we?

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It was the first time in Minnesota that it happened.

I was relieved to hear the verdict, but FFS, a 13 yo black girl was killed by cops in the past week, and she was the one who called the cops in the first place.

That's on top of the 2 "Oops. Thought is was my tazer." shootings in the past month.

It's still a rate of about 1 black person killed by a cop every 3 days in the US over the past year, so it's not like a huge amount of progress is being made.


We need more (peaceful) protests. We need this to keep being raged at. We need to address the absolute shitstorm that is the US view on crime and punishment as a whole. The system is literally designed to strip the right to vote by black Americans by turning black culture into felony offenses. It's designed to keep poor people poor and to marginalize certain groups. It's designed to isolate those poor and marginalized people from the greater society and make it nearly impossible for them to re-enter.

I mean: What is it about Americans that makes us need to imprison such a vast swath of our people? Is it our freedom? Do we really believe in freedom? Do we?

I agree with the sentiment. Though I do think it's absurd (at least after the body cam video came out) for people to be treating Ma'khia Bryant's killing as equivalent to George Floyds. It for sure was an absolute tragedy. Part of the tragedy being that she was in fact the one who called police for help because she was allegedly being attacked by the other girls. On a systemic level, this is troubling and a sign that things need to change-- but that cop made a tough call in the moment, and I just don't see how anyone can understand what the word murder means and think that applies here.

Also I bolded her age-- I don't know if this is a cynical move on the part of people who want to embellish an anti cop narrative (as if there's a need for that..), but I've seen 12, 13, 14, 15, and her actual age, according to her foster mom, 16. In actuality a very young person lost their life, and that's terrible, but in the narrow reality of whether it was a justified shooting, calling her a child is disingenuous and an attempt to smear the cop as a child killer.

btw, I'm pretty fucking anti cop, but what this cop did is simply not the same as what Chauvin was just convicted of.