(March 10, 2021 at 4:13 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:(March 10, 2021 at 3:53 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Nope, sorry, tired of blaming the victim.
I have seen over an over, black men and women severely injured or dying, with or without weapons, on drugs or not. Sandra bland died in custody, not drunk, not high, not anything. I myself got pulled over in the early 90s after a bar closed, in the parking lot. I got the roadside test, but they didn't give me the breath test, I passed and they let me go. They didn't beat up or shoot the other white guy who tried to shove an open wine cooler into my driver side door expecting me to cover for him. That guy was arrested without harm for open container.
I can tell you what the long term problem is though.
It is economics, lack of livable wages, economic discrimination but also facing police constantly with an armed public, no matter the zip code.
I wouldn't have been treated like Floyd if a call came in accusing me of the same, even if I was the same size.
Sandra Bland killed herself. I don't know if she wanted to become a martyr or what, but she killed herself.
Gee, someone who went their entire life trying to do the right thing, and did, suddenly made a minor mistake and was worried about image?
Should it matter that Whitney Houston died an addict, who never had a DUI ? Bland didn't even die from what Whitney did, but still died.
