I don't think he implied that it did.deanimator wrote:The problem is that bad things are just bad things. One doesn't cancel out or justify another.M-Quigley wrote:I mentioned the video to a friend of mine, (who is black) asked if he'd seen it and what he thought of it. He watched it on his phone, and just shook his head. Although he sees nothing wrong with a parent of any color having a talk with their kids about what to do if stopped by the police, they should be talking to their kids about other things as well. He also said that if the boy and girl in the last part of the video ever get shot, they're a thousand times more likely to get shot by another black person than by a cop. But then that doesn't fit the narrative of the commercial. I don't know if he is right statistically, but in general I think he's right.
The Chicago barmaid whom the Chicago cop tried to stomp to death was FAR more likely to be beat en by a husband or boyfriend than by a cop. That doesn't justify, diminish or negate what the cop did..
deanimator wrote: There are dueling false and malicious narratives at work today.
Black Lies Matter is pushing a narrative that ANY violence used by police against a Black person (and ONLY a Black person, the barmaid and the Aussie in Minneapolis don't count) is "racist". To hear them tell it, the shooting of the Somali jihadi at Ohio state is as big (if not bigger) of a "crime" as the 16th Street church bombing in Birmingham.
The police unions and their hangers-on are pushing a narrative that ANY criticism of police misconduct, no matter HOW egregious, "puts cops lives in danger". To them, showing the video of the cop stomping the barmaid "too many times" is FAR worse than the actual beating itself. Police can ONLY be criticized by other police, and mere citizens have no right to do so. A Black gangbanger shooting another Black gangbanger (or a bystander) means that the police killings of Akai Gurley and Kathryn Johnston can be ignored and those who mention them dismissed as "cop haters".
What we have today is a battle of pernicious, sociopathic ideologies, one which says that young Black, male felons can do no wrong, the other that cops can do no wrong.
Both are profoundly evil