Biden's Press Conference!

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(09-02-2020, 01:33 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: It's a shitty game they get to play, "they resisted". Someone like Elijah McClain, who fits the profile of someone on the spectrum, is confronted and grabbed by police. As soon as someone who hasn't done a thing wrong has a normal, not at all malicious, reaction to that physical contact, they're accused of "resisting". 

A 5 foot 6, buck forty kid walking down the street dancing a bit to music, and they're manhandling him as he's vomiting and crying that he can't breathe. This kid is having an uncontrollable reaction to being thrown to the ground and restrained. 


The car was still moving before Rice was shot. They tackled his sister as she ran to her dying brother. 

Castile tries to let the cops know that he carries a gun, he's trying to be responsible, and they shoot him as he tries to go for his ID as they asked for. The cop responds to him saying that he had a gun with "Okay, don't reach for it, then ... don't pull it out." Castile says "I'm not pulling it out". He wasn't going for his gun, his hand had been on his wallet. The cop may have meant, don't go for the wallet either, but that's unclear and the end result is a dead man who at no point threatened anyone. He had been pulled over because he had a "wide nose" like a suspect they were looking for...

George Floyd was erratic but not violent. He was on something, but he didn't need a knee on his neck for 8 minutes. What he did was irrelevant to that fact.

Yea, I hate playing that game. But ultimately, if that is what it takes to engage someone from the other side, I think it's worth dispelling the misinformation and focusing the topic to the cop's actions rather than the victims', as the cops' actions are the ones we can actually change and alter with policy and funding.