It’s so enraging to see the same people who protested against police officers abusing their “legal” boundaries in the killing of Black boys are now justifying police officer’s “legal” boundaries in the killing of Black girls.
It is so terrible to witness the whole “it’s lawful” argument. “It’s lawful for police to kill,” some say. Y’all, we can’t fail to forget that what’s “lawful” has continued to be hostile and harmful—especially when it comes to policing and black people.
In our society, It’s literally “lawful” to do anything if you have a badge (see @frontlinepbs Policing the Police). Just because it’s “lawful” doesn’t mean it’s right or just. Let’s not forget: the state decided so many murders of Black children, women, and men were “lawful”.
As has been true in history and today, anti-Blackness and legality has overwhelmingly had a damnable relationship to our Black humanity and reality. Sadly, the law has been used, in so many ways, to protect and promote racist power in relations with Black people.
There is no argument for legality when white children, women, and men are able to attack cops, murder others, and live to see their trial and tell the story. It’s not that cops have a problem with restraint. It’s that their restraint fails to include Black people.
Once again: Ma’Khia Bryant should be alive. She should be alive.
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