Nah, kettled them in with riot shields, beat them to the ground, pepper sprayed them while they were down, and then shot them claiming they misunderstood the writhing around in pain for reaching for a concealed weapon.
Why would the cops get to decide how quickly people have to leave the stadium? Do you think there is a law that the stadium must be empty exactly 23 minutes after the game? Do you think the cops are experts that were trained on the amount of time that people can safely linger in a stadium after a game? The cops wanted to go home so they abused their authority and then violently assaulted a school band director in front of a bunch of kids.
Hmmm… let’s see how many people don’t watch the video and jump into some race-baited tirade and didn’t see that the people telling him to stop, as well as like 1/2 the officers were also black.
Or people could just be upset that cops of any color feel justified in using tasers when civilians don’t comply with unusual, unnecessary requests. I don’t care what color the band director is or what color the cops are. I’m continually disgusted at how many videos there are of cops losing their shit when a civilian doesn’t immediately respond “how high?”.
Cops definitely escalated this issue beyond what it should have been… BUT instead of saying that, seemingly 1/2 the folks jump conclusions that it was because of race when race rather clearly had nothing to do with this. We have idiots calling the black cops racist against the black band director just to save face because I called them out on not watching the damn video.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the race of the band director did place a part, but I’m pissed at what happened either way.
By some more nuances definitions I’ve heard it may be technically true that the black cops weren’t racist. However, it is possible to treat someone poorly because of the color of their skin even if it matches your own. Maybe the cops consider themselves “one of the good ones”, maybe they just believe that they are able to power trip a little harder against certain races because it’s more socially acceptable, or maybe they don’t want to stand out against their white peers and just do what they do.
I honestly didn’t watch the video either though - maybe a black cop was the first to escalate it so the last hypothetical isn’t a strong one. I’ve just seen enough videos like that this week and don’t want to get more upset by watching one more.
Technically a black man can be racist against another black man. Its not logical, but that never stopped anyone. But in this case, I will bet tgere is some prior history that isn’t being shared.
and there have been plenty of black officers being caught on video being hella racist against black citizens and cracking racist bullshit with their white cohorts.
interestingly enough, though both Ukraine and Russia are signatory to that treaty, neither country that signed it exists anymore - Ukrainian SSR and the Soviet Union
If it’s taken you until this situation to figure out that Boebert is an actress of politics and doesn’t believe any of the shit she spews on the regular, then congratulations!
In case anyone is NOT paying attention, this is the American right laying down more than just the foundation, they’re laying down the framework of their version of fascism. Full stop. Zero hyperbole.
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