Ah, the romance of American blackness! Thirty seconds into the committee hearings and we're already deep into black narcissism. I didn't stick around for the obligatory mention of Emmett Till.
Do black Americans—the pampered, privileged pets of our society—do they really not have any idea how much so many of us resent their endless whining?
We have twisted and deformed our entire society—our justice system, our educational system—in efforts to appease them, but they only ask for more.
There is an instance of that deformation of our society staring right back at you, Mr. Chairman: the January 6 killing of unarmed white female protestor Ashli Babbitt by armed black male Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. After a perfunctory inquiry, Lt. Byrd was cleared of any wrongdoing.
I know it's trite to say it, Mr. Chairman, but do you really believe that a white male cop who shot an unarmed black woman under any circumstances whatsoever would get away without a word of reprimand?
You believe that? Really?
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Has it ever happened in the US that a white person, maybe even someone well-known, comes home in the evening only to experience that a short while later, a bunch of cops burst in without warning, in a ‘shoot first and POSSIBLY ask questions later’ mood, because a neighbor saw him/her go in and called 911 about some white person breaking in?
“the January 6 killing of unarmed white female protestor Ashli Babbitt by armed black male”
At least she got more chances to not get shot than, say, Breonna Taylor. Ashli just chose not to stop at any of the locked doors or barricades she should have.
What does "without a word of reprimand" mean to you, John? I can't really think of any instance where a cop killed someone that wasn't met without at least an initial sort of inquiry when the case wasn't completely clear cut. Someone charging them with a knife, getting ahot at, or telling them to cease their violent actions while endangering others and advancing on them.
Which, you know, was how Babbitt died.
Why compare an "any circumstances" to "a violent person storming the Capitol building and trying to get access to unarmed politicians hiding in a secured room for fear of their lives, with a mob behind her." She was climbing through a window someone else broke, advancing on not just the officer, but people the officer is sworn to protect.
Instances like the above mentioned Breonna Taylor, where the officer who shot into the room with poor visibility received a worse punishment than the one who is believed to have killed her (no punishment at all), happens all the time.
What's happening in the Capitol right now could be considered the 21st Century's McCarthy Hearings: but the antithesis of such. Very Un American activity by all those whites , so it's only right that the White Right are destroyed by the one heading said committees.
Pout Boys. Gro(y)pers. I hope Donald Fart isn't the only one who dies on that Hill.
Have you now or ever been a member of the Nazi Party, OP...?!
Except that, you know, Babbitt *spit * was at the front of a VIOLENT AND MURDEROUS MOB that ASSAULTED THE CAPITOL with the intention to STAGE A COUP!!! A mob that outright screamed they wanted to shed as much blood as possible! Including making a noose to quite literally hang the VP with! Any attempts to be peaceful were squandered by those insurrectionists when they literally tore down the front door and starting attacking the guards!
That is COMPLETELY different from a unarmed black person just walking out of his front door and immediatly being shot by 3 white cops who didn’t even bother asking any questions, all because some random person reported they MAY have seen a break-in nearby…
Or how about random unarmed black people who get pulled over and then tasered and peppersprayed just because they didn’t grab their license quickly enough, despite being friendly and calm?
Signed, a friggin’ WHITE person.
So when Kyle Rittenhouse went armed with a weapon he could not legally possess into a city he did not live in to flaunt a curfew that he ridiculously claimed to be enforcing despite having no legal authority to do so and indeed it being a criminal act and harassed random people until one took a swing at him this act of violence, which he provoked, was all that he needed to clear him of all responsibility for the criminal acts he was in the middle of committing and claim self defense. This first victim - who post-killing was frantically labelled as a convicted pedophile which even if Rittenhouse somehow could have known had absolutely zero bearing on the events of that night - had no right to self defense upon being confronted by the teenage “militia” member who hounded him a short distance until he ducked out of sight to “ambush” his pursuer and the witnesses to the shooting, despite fearing for their lives, similarly had no rights and their attempts to disable an active shooter you then portrayed as a vicious assault which justified further killings. You wanted everyone on the block executed which you claimed was appropriate because property destruction was going on in the general area and that’s good enough to say everyone involved was guilty of everything everywhere. Kyle Rittenhouse might not have been charged at all had his mother not insisted on driving him to the police to turn himself in after he came home, as the police who rolled up in the aftermath of the shooting decided on the spot he was free to leave the scene, the city, and the state of the crime despite being the clearly armed shooter loudly identified by the crowd the police proceeded to treat as the real threat. The following trial was little more than theater and made little discussion of the right to self defense for any non-Rittenhouse individual and none at all for the police simply letting a criminal into a city under lockdown and then walk right back out after committing more crimes, armed, touching his gun right in front of the police, with bodies on the ground. And every effort was made to demonize the residents - whether they were involved in illegal acts that night or not simply being held collectively responsible - while excusing the militia to whom the law simply did not apply and who did not bear responsibility for any of the actions of any of their members.
When thousands of people smashed their way into the Capitol building with the loudly stated intention of murder, makeshift gallows at the ready, improvised explosive devices deployed, restraints for taking hostages to later execute and floor plans to find them distributed, and anything not nailed down securely in hand the one cop who had the gall to discharge their weapon at the person in front who was climbing through what was at the moment the latest of several barricades to be battered down - and not with bare fists I should add - was investigated and in danger of punishment despite being in immediate undeniable personal danger to which an international audience witnessed live and having a duty to defend your elected officials with his life. The elected officials that mob was there to murder. The mob was not to be touched while an actual policeman in the line of duty, overwhelmed, and fearing for his life, is a criminal in your eyes for discharging his weapon against the person at the front of the mob. Never mind the thousands of additional assailants behind Babbit, the violence and destruction and stated intention of murder each of those assailants was committing, the looting, the officers sent to hospital, that the Capitol’s defenders had to keep falling back because even Babbit’s death did not deter a continued assault and the rest of the mob simply stepped over her corpse to bash down the next barricade… No. Clear and present danger does not justify the spilling of American blood by a police officer even in the middle of a riot. And much effort was made to downplay the mob ranging from lying outright about the destruction and portraying it as a tour group, ridiculously charged with “marching indoors” and pointedly burying all mention of the injuries and deaths of Capitol police officers to put more sympathetic focus on Babbit while suggesting the police are violent murderous monsters the public should not trust.
Hmm. Yes. Exactly the same. Perfect moral consistency.
There is an instance of that deformation of our society staring right back at you, Mr. Chairman: the January 6 killing of unarmed white female protestor Ashli Babbitt by armed black male Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. After a perfunctory inquiry, Lt. Byrd was cleared of any wrongdoing
Well, she was part of a rioting crowd with murderous intent against several high-ranking officials, including Congressmen and the VP, simply because the POTUS wanted to do a self-coup.
So they keep saying Ashli Babbitt was murdered but in the same passage this guy says that even mentioning what happened to Emmett Till is whining.
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old who was kidnapped and tortured to death because he might or might not have said hello to a white woman.
Ashli Babbitt was shot while breaking into a government facility with a bunch of terrorists to undercut our democracy and block the Congress’s ability to certify the election results.
I think there is whining here, but it’s not on the Emmett Till side.
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