At my work someone put the video up on a screen and this one closest racist motherfukker from South Carolina was like, "I'm not saying it was okay that they shot him, but.....he could have listened to them"
I got heated, there was an argument, and I'm still fukking beside myself right now. Setting aside all the dumb ass things that can be said to this person, since when did not listening to the cops become a death sentence. The fukking wife says he has a traumatic brain injury. I don't care if he had a gun or not. The cops should be able to safely de-escalate situations without killing so many fukking people. You've got verbal skills to de-escalate, you've got non lethal options like pepper sprays, and less lethal options like tasers. Why the fukk are so many people getting shot? It's infuriating.
Why are our tax dollars giving these murderers paid vacations when they kill people in hate crimes at most, or at the least...when they commit unbelievable negligence?!
Why are they asking him to get out of the car in at own home? What did this man do wrong, besides being a black man?
I hate that I have so many names of unarmed and innocent people seared into my memory. I was talking to my mom last night about the situation in Charlotte, and I rattled off a good 10-12 names of people murdered by cops in high profile cases in the past year or so, alone.
It shouldn't be like this. We have GOT the fix this. My big concern too is that people are going to get desensitized to it. I['m scared that it's already happening. The guy at work said "Oh they released the video? Pull it up" in a room full of 6 people, without even asking if anyone in the room might not want to witness a fukking murder at 3pm on a Friday.
I'm physically shaking with anger at so much right now. Last thing I'll say. EVEN in ACTUAL WAR...there are rules of engagement. In Iraq and Afghanistan, American military forces can't just open fire, even if they SEE a fukking weapon. They have to get fired on first. So why are civilians (cops are civilians and people forget that) allowed to unload on other unarmed or non-threatening citizens?
This is horse shyt.