Anyone who can take a moment to think intellectually & look the following cases honestly ( not emotionally) will have to reach a similar conclusion. Not saying they ended as they should have, but look it from both sides.
1. #BreonnaTaylor
2. #GeorgeFloyd
3. #JacobBlake
#BreonnaTalyor
Dated a career criminal w a justified arrest warrant. He gave her address as the last know residence & was seen there on surveillance. Her name appears to’ve been on the warrant
Police knocks on the door but is immediately shot at. LEOs shoot back in self defense.
Her current boyfriend shoots the LEOs who knocked & made their presence known according to witnesses. He is declared innocent as he stated he shot in self-defense.
The officers also shot back in self-defense, they did NOT go to her apt to kill. So why is the officer at fault?
She shouldn’t have died but poor choices & the real criminal (the ex boyfriends) are at fault.
Race was not a factor. A trail of evidence believing that the ex boyfriend was there followed by an immediate retaliation led up to this.
Therefore riots are unjustified.
#GeorgeFloyd
A career criminal, arrested w a just cause, resists arrest while having drugs in his system.
He shouldn’t have died but had he not resisted, he’d be alive.
Does this justify excessive force, No! Not defending LEO in this case but race was NOT a factor.
There is no evidence that things would have ended any different if Floyd was a white man on drugs resisting arrest. So the riots are again unjustified. There are several video footages of white criminals being killed in the same manner.
#JacobBlake A career criminal w multiple warrants 4 his arrest committing a violent crime, rape/sexual assault, resists arrest after cops were called by the victim. Runs 2 his car & is shot in self defense. Anyone w average IQ knows 2 drive away you don’t get into a car head 1st.
I do not feel sorry for Blake, but leaving emotions aside, any person would feel threatened by that situation, especially a cop.
The number of cops killed by criminals as a result of same situation far surpasses the number of unarmed criminals shot after resisting arrest.
Race was NOT a factor in Blake’s case. Crime & a 911 call were. Riots were not justified.
You can ignore facts, build false narratives & play victim, but the truth is that these cases had nothing to do racism.
Don’t resist arrest, especially when there is a warrant 4 your arrest.
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