Ok fair enough. Nah, not interested in watching it. The message I quoted seemed to indicate that bringing out a knife in a fist fight was a no-no in and of itself. If we're in agreement that it's situational, I'm cool.
There is, also apparently in the video (I've tried to stay away, as like you, not one to watch this) a passing glance at a man who looks like he's about to kick a women while she's down.
Love the "He should have disarmed her" takes on twitter, as if from 8-10 ft away that would have prevented at potentially mortal stabbing. Also, there was apparently a 13 year old that killed another 13 year old with a knife in the last week in Ohio :
https://www.fox19.com/2021/04/20/upd...ls-police-say/
Anyone hear about that one? No? Cool. Just kids being kids.
At some point, if you want there to be actual "peace" some uncomfortable conversations need to take place. And based purely on statistics, while the Police interaction with the AA community needs to happen (Yea Clack, I saw the Charleston SC post, please see
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/poli...murder-by-year - but as long as White's feel better about police interaction, what's another few murders?) there needs to be something done.
Police interaction/training has to be on that list, absolutely. But here is the truth. Most whites in rural America have fleeting interactions with African Americans. Those that do, do so in a predominantly white community. Even those liberal white's who apparently have an unhealthy habit of what I like to think of as the Marvelfication of Social Justice (Everyone can be a hero, I just need a Villian) are predominately in White Social Circles.
Anyway, truth is, with rural whites, and I'd imagine most people there is a hierarchy - My home, my neighborhood, my city, my state, my country. And they compare to these situations in that sense.
When rural America see's this, they think "Jesus, wtf is going on in X?". I mean, watch the video. That's normal, as some ppl on twitter are defending? Think about those who tragically lost their lives? George Floyd did not deserve to die, but he was a crappy human being (gun to pregnant women's belly?). Jacob Blake can be argued, but you see his sheet? Brianna Taylor was an innocent bystander, but they guy she was with (doesn't make it any less tragic). had run-ins. There are warts. No, they didn't serve to die, or shot (I have my opinions on Blake, but whatever) or the outcome that came because of terribly trained officers. But you see patterns, not just from those like Chauvin, but those who they interact with (lil Homicide?).
The conversation needs to be had about these communities and the violence within them, mostly pertaining to African American communities. Maybe white's caused it, hell, I don't know, I'm sure we didn't help, but if you want to cut down on potentially fatal interactions with law enforcement, where (statistically speaking) the majority seem justified, maybe start there. Police training? Hell yea, that needs something done.
And yes, I saw Lax's post about Urban vs Rural shootings. They've went up in Rural areas (looking at data, seems it's mostly whites, but I have a sneaking suspicion we won't hear much about racist motivations). But while Physical police interactions are down, what is the violent crime rate doing as a whole? For example:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A new study has found that areas with Black Lives Matter protests saw a 15-20% reduction in police officers’ use of lethal force — resulting in roughly 300 fewer police homicides. <a href="https://t.co/AQtQm1v4Ue">https://t.co/AQtQm1v4Ue</a></p>— Vox (@voxdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1384554472152698886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
What they leave out is that while there is a 15/20% in reduction in lethal force, there was an upwards of 6000 more homicides in some areas. But, as long as Whitey feels good, everyone should fall in line, right?
If you consider that victim blaming, explain that too the victims:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/...-presence.aspx
81% of African Americans surveyed want as much or more Police presence in their area.
