Everyone should be worthy of consideration. Even the police (which you do not consider). If you accept that simple fact (everyone is worthy) you can focus on what happened and the facts. It isn't about whether someone is or isn't worthy or a criminal or an angel etc. The fact that Taylor had post it notes all over her apartment or was buying a new car is completely irrelevant to the discussion.
I was going to bold some of the text for you when I posted the article at your request. But then I thought it would be overkill. Clearly I misjudged. Really. Anyway, I'm done with this thread.
Have a great day, Fred. I'm sorry if the fact that I do not agree with your assessment makes you angry, but we are all entitled to our own views.
Sadly, it seems those who say violence does not accomplish anything are wrong. I heard McConnell say it today! Centuries of world history prove him wrong. The freedom marches prove him wrong. It was the killing of the freedom marchers, the burning and the lynching that brought change. Singing, marching and hand holding can only go so far. Violence, innocent death, property destruction and great financial loss have been the means of overcoming entrenched beliefs and government sanctioned oppression. Without violence and horrible loss, nothing other than lip service and insignificant changes in law are likely forthcoming. I abhor violence; I strongly oppose it; I will not participate in it. I am simply an observer. "While it rarely achieves any creative goal, rioting is the voice of the voiceless who have nothing to lose." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. It does not matter whether it occurred to King or not, history tells us that without violence, the death of innocents and the loss of property, the peaceful, non-violent protests of his followers would have likely lead to little if anything. It was the violence, generated among the ignorant that were hell bent on preserving Jim Crow laws of the South and maintaining American apartheid, that brought in the Federal Government and forced change. King was brilliant and brave in his insistence on non-violence, all the while knowing that he and some of his millions of followers would be met with violence. It was the violence that brought the change. It will be violence that brings the change now; whether it is the violence of the police or the violence of the protestors.
Reading comments on Facebook like: "They were drug dealers..they deserved to be shot at!" This is the fucktarded level of stupidy we have reached in this country. I would love to know where they read that Breonna or her BF had drugs on them....were seen dealing drugs..or were ever involved with drugs... but I guess facts are irrelevant when an Black person is shot because police think they are drug dealers. if they had any suspicion they could have served a day time no knock warrant while she was at work or even if she was home at a reasonable time to catch her. She was just overreach by the cops.
Interesting that all of the work done by professional criminologists to develop a policing system is cast aside and YOU have the answers on how to police the inner city. I think you would fill your drawers like Nadler did.