US police brutality item

[Rev. Rye]

The reason black lives are emphasised is that they are disproportionately the victims of police violence.

Add to it the facts of the case:

• George Floyd had a knee pressing full-force at his windpipe for 8 minutes, 46 seconds, and was unconscious for about a third of that time.
  
• The only crime Floyd was being investigated for was passing off a counterfeit $20 at a convenience store.
  
• This fatal knee choke happened in full view of a several people, at least a few filming, many pleading for the cop in question to stop, pleas which fell on deaf ears, which heavily implies he thought he could get away with this sort of shit with multiple eyewitnesses.
  
• Floyd was, in fact, black.
  

It really does paint a dark picture for darker-skinned people unless you start seeing a lot of disproportionate force of this magnitude being practiced on white people.