This family didn’t make a lot of noise about their teenage son being killed by the police in broad daylight because they were friendly with people on the force and some family members had been local officials themselves. They trusted that justice would be done.
https://twitter.com/GeeDee215/status/1454799411243065350
The police don’t suddenly have mechanisms for accountability in place when their actions hurt the “wrong” people, tho — like in this case, where the teenager who was shot to death was white and came from a police-supporting family.
If you think police violence is just carried out by “bad apples,” you’re also kind of hoping that should that violence ever befall you, the “good apples” — somehow given different professional training and incentives — will rush to the fore to hear you out + make things right.
There’s not some publicly accountable, self-correcting policing apparatus that ppl can order off the secret menu. This is what we got.
this family is absolutely not at fault here. They are living through a catastrophe. that detail just jumped out bc it changed how much attention their story initially got.
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