Mush, at some point people have had enough. That's how we became a country. People got tired and fought back.
Sometimes you need to fight back and it doesn't need to be pretty.
Do I wish there was a different outcome? Yes.
But the bolded is the big reason for all of this.
If one of those cops had disobeyed the brotherhood and stepped in to stop it, even If the man died, people would have seen a cop trying to help. But instead, 4 guys watched a man kill another man.
Mush, the black community (I use black because I know may people of color from the islands and they don't consider themselves African American ) has often tried to protests are met with overactive police or intolerant people trying to prevent it.
This is the point you and others constantly miss. That is why it is called a systemic issue. People in the system, don't see it because they don't want to see it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-10433094.html
Mush if the man in that picture was black, he would have been on the ground and surrounded by every cop in the area. But that dude is white so he gets the benefit of the doubt and the patience of the cop. That is the definition of white privilege
Not being asked to keep your hands on the steering wheel if you get pulled over, is white privilege. It doesn't mean you asked for it and it doesn't make you a bad person for it but we all need to really see it and understand what it would be like to never, never be given the benefit of the doubt and to always be held to a different standard
That is not the fault of the cops. It's what they've been taught because this is systemic.
We are one of the few nations that has privatized penal institutions and have senators who are supported by those owners, pushing laws that will target certain groups.
It's systemic.
A lack of funding for inner city schools to create a divide.
It's systemic.
If you can't see that or don't want to believe that, you are part of the problem. That doesn't make you a bad person but it makes you complicit with. system set up to exploit certain groups
At some point, people can't take it anymore.