The abject atrocity of the Greene case reminds me of the murder of Tony Timpa -- whose mother was initially told that her son had had a heart attack at a bar and died. Another officer told her, “Tony called 911, got in an ambulance, waved to the cops and then he collapsed."
What actually happened to Tony Timpa -- who was in the midst of a mental health crisis -- was that he was held down by police officers until he died. nytimes.com/2019/08/01/us/…
They did so with body-cams rolling.
The officers who killed him received qualified immunity. The judge argued that Timpa's family would need to find a specific case that "clearly established" the officers' conduct was unconstitutional. dallasnews.com/news/courts/20…
Tony Timpa was white, in crisis, and terrified. Ronald Greene was black, in crisis, and terrified. In both cases, police lied to the families of both men and, in Greene's case to internal investigators, about what really happened. apnews.com/article/arrest…
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Not a person alive has takes hotter than a man allegedly running for office against a Republican viewed to be insufficiently supportive of Donald Trump.
It became useful to turn eliminating QI into a cudgel issue, the same reason why it became politically useful for certain people to argue that the murders of George Floyd and Ahmad Arbery were somehow their fault after initially saying otherwise.
It was useful to make BLM a corporate cause that required no actual action, and it was useful to make it a scapegoat to also do no actual action.
He lived a very ... interesting life, as one would expect from someone who spent much of his life trying to run away from the fact of his parents being Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford, perhaps the most well known British Nazi supporters of the 1930s.