Drich, I know that willfully not seeing context is like your superpower, but...
Let's assume "the last guy" had a gun. Let us also assume, for the sake of argument, that he was wielding it in a threatening manner.
The protestors, that you're implying leaped to conclusions in this case, do actually have some evidence, here: what they have, is a pattern of minority men and women being met with lethal force at a rate they find to be disproportionate. They feel this because they also see white people, often doing far more overtly violent acts, being taken in alive, while black people tend to be shot for... well, not doing much of anything, really. So you have a world where, just off the top of my head, the Aurora theater shooter gets taken in alive, yet the black kid with the fake gun gets gunned down. The black guy with his hands up gets shot. And so on.
What is being protested, in these cases, is not just the specific case that sparked this particular round of protests, but also the overarching narrative that becomes clearer each time this happens, which is that police responses tend to favor white people while turning out disturbingly fatal for minorities in analogous or less severe scenarios. You're looking at one more police shooting in a long line of them, and choosing only to see the latest body because it suits your preferred narrative to do so.
The people on the street protesting do not have the luxury of doing that. It's one more and one more and one more, no matter how you sit there and try to twist so that it's just one.
Let's assume "the last guy" had a gun. Let us also assume, for the sake of argument, that he was wielding it in a threatening manner.
The protestors, that you're implying leaped to conclusions in this case, do actually have some evidence, here: what they have, is a pattern of minority men and women being met with lethal force at a rate they find to be disproportionate. They feel this because they also see white people, often doing far more overtly violent acts, being taken in alive, while black people tend to be shot for... well, not doing much of anything, really. So you have a world where, just off the top of my head, the Aurora theater shooter gets taken in alive, yet the black kid with the fake gun gets gunned down. The black guy with his hands up gets shot. And so on.
What is being protested, in these cases, is not just the specific case that sparked this particular round of protests, but also the overarching narrative that becomes clearer each time this happens, which is that police responses tend to favor white people while turning out disturbingly fatal for minorities in analogous or less severe scenarios. You're looking at one more police shooting in a long line of them, and choosing only to see the latest body because it suits your preferred narrative to do so.
The people on the street protesting do not have the luxury of doing that. It's one more and one more and one more, no matter how you sit there and try to twist so that it's just one.
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