You have to be a rank racist to run from the question, and a hypocrite to project scrutiny away from you.
People use the word racist on this forum as if it is a bad word. Racism is the biological imperative. Throughout nature Life prefers its own kind. Being a racist means you prefer your own kind. Everyone prefers their own kind. There is actually something wrong with a person that wants to be another kind. Again - racism is the biological imperative. For 5 billion years like has preferred like.
The issue is government abusing citizens and a justice system that can't or won't rectify those abuses. Specifically we are talking about police abuse of citizens, which could be a.) governmental abuse by system, b.)governmental abuse by abberation, c.) personnel issue by repeated intent (bad apples), d)personnel issue by mistake. So it's complicated. What the statue does is add another layer of complication that obfuscates what actually happened so that we can address the issue as a citizenry/society, issues that affect us all. The statue introduces race grifting into the equation in a way that makes it harder for society to solve the problem for all of us. I don't know whether Taylor was a race grifter prior to the incident, but for sure her image is being used by race grifters. Race grifters seek to profit from the race hatred they are able to incite. Race grifters aren't so much interested in prosecuting personnel responsible, or those laws responsible, as much as they are interesting in race baiting racists until they are worked up into a fever pitch ready to commit crimes of violence against completely unrelated parties to satisfy a lust for collective punishment, to intimidate the responsible parties into treating one race differently than any other. This kind of extortion would give special status and special favor to one race, while the remaining races still have to deal with the original problem listed under a., b., c., and d. above. The statue represents the worst kind of race grifting the world has ever seen since the Third Reich tried to profit from it's own brand of race grifting. The statue incites ongoing violence, and intends to normalize collective punishment as a means to extort our nation far past the riots of last year. The statue could cause harm to hundreds more citizens who are completely unrelated to what actually happens, according to statistics, or what actually happened in the drug raid on Taylor's boyfriend's apartment. The statue represents gang warfare, drug-dealers, their gangs, against the societal sanctioned gangs (the police), and seeks to spread that violence far out into the broad community having nothing to do with the police and it's issues, or drug dealers, their gangs, and their issues. The question then, is what motivated the statue breaker to not finish the job?
People use the word racist on this forum as if it is a bad word. Racism is the biological imperative. Throughout nature Life prefers its own kind. Being a racist means you prefer your own kind. Everyone prefers their own kind. There is actually something wrong with a person that wants to be another kind. Again - racism is the biological imperative. For 5 billion years like has preferred like.