I honestly blame dumb ass snuff sites like World Star and Flyheight for this lack of understanding of how frightening the shyt was. Just imagine if the body cam or overhead street camera was a person. Can't talk, can't speak, but listens...watches....and feels.
You have a man minding his own business and heading home only to be greeted by flashing lights, five officers yelling and screaming all over the place, and nowhere to go. There are a few folks out there and cars passing by...but they can't do much but look and go away. No help for this man as this guy gets punched, kicked, choked, thrown all over the streets, and it's a 5-man weave. Each hit feels harder than the other one. Each kick feels stronger than the other kick. You are traumatized of such physical reactions at hand, you start to become belligerent. You have flashbacks of a good time being young, your mother giving you a afternoon snack, listening to Chicken Head by Project Pat and laughing with the homies. Doing kick pushes and ollies at malls and areas where folks just enjoying themselves.
Reality comes back, and your face is bleeding uncontrollably, your ribs are softened like they were sitting in an oven overnight, chest caved in to the point it makes it hard to breathe, you keep slipping out and in of consciousness. As if God trying to take the sting away from the torture of man. You feel comfortable because you know it's over. The hits are stopped, the gloating is heard from a distance, and you realize that it's over. You can finally rest....but eternally.
Meanwhile, you have folks talking about some "oh this is not as bad as the George Floyd video". As if a man's entire weight crushing your breathing canal while you are facing a hard asphalt suffering from claustrophobia, panic attacks, and suffocation is any better.
Sigh Let me get out of this fukking thread...this is why I hate threads like this and seeing the news...when you get into that "mode" of realizing that the world is fukked up especially if you are black...it shortens the joy in your heart that will help you to push on...so you can be a light for other black people that see the world as fukked up without no light to shine through the darkness.