Yeah, probably not.

I'm actually against BLM for not being as controversial or antagonistic as they could be, but that kinda ruins the narrative of people insisting BLM are responsible for violence against police and white people. BLM as a movement and/or a protest is hella benign even with all the (gasp!) black people chanting slogans.

Just stating how these cases always start out in the media to be open and shut 100% due to racism , and then as time pass, there's always other factors involved.

OK, how about you explain for us how weed shot this guy.

No, riot cops have always been geared like that, it's not because of THE ENCROACHING BLACK MENACE.

I think weed is a factor in DEMON EYES.

What rate, percentage-wise, are Asians killed by police, compared to whites, and also African-Americans I guess

No way I can if that's how you think. Being a factor in many cases doesn't necessarily mean a cause and effect relationship. But the presence of drugs in these cases could affect the person's behavior during the contact with the police. Same with criminal record, expired license, etc. If you look at all the data and all the factors, you will almost for sure see factors stronger than just race.

Yeah, that "criminal record" is a direct cause of racism, too. But why are we forbidden from discussing racism despite your infinite imagination for other causes to justify killing a black guy?

For once can you guys follow these to their logical conclusion?

To streamline it, let's say, sure, ok, after tragedies some people, understandably, emotionally exaggerate (a black minister has a 99.7% chance to have a bomb dropped on his head for simply checking his mailbox, a white man pulling a gun on police wins a free trip to disneyland, etc).

Fine, whatever.

But then what?

I'm gonna give you a big-ass spoiler alert up front: If you're at all intellectually honest it's gonna lead you to being a gung-ho reparations supporter, weeping softly about the history of slavery, and possibly an outright socialist.

Or he broke the law a bunch of times and got caught. He seemed to struggle with basic tasks like registering his license-plates.

It's the genuine article of circularly begging the question.

"I didn't shoot him because he was black, I did cuz he had a criminal record."
"Ok, why did he have a criminal record?"
"Cuz I pulled him over a bunch and fined the **** out of him."
"Ok, why did you do that?"
"Well, he sort of looked suspicious a bunch, like, you know..."
"Hmmm."

HIDE YOUR KIDS HIDE YOUR WIFE

He was pulled over around an average of twice a year for his entire driving life.

Funny enough I was pulled over for the same BS improper display of a license plate" as my license plate holder was touching the state name on the plate and was "obstructing it". After doing his drunk driver fishing expedition skit (how many drinks have you had tonight?) he told me why he pulled me over, I told him I had never heard of the law and and if he could show me what he meant. He let me get out of the car and he showed me. I asked for a screw driver he had in his front pocket and unscrewed it, removed the holder and put the the license plate back. He let me go and I was on my way. Not saying that it definitely was white privilege, maybe I got lucky and got a cool officer, who knows?

Having a screw driver in your front pocket is weird.

Where you going with this, champ?

I'll throw down a guess for "nowhere".

He seems to have missed that the point of calling a series of minor traffic violations a "criminal record" is loltastic.

If the cop made a reach for it I would've stabbed him with my own screwdriver.

I believe the correct play when facing a screwdriver is to get your Bernie Goetz on.

I'm not sure what you're asking for.

https://twitter.com/benfelder_okc/st...68134694866944

A lot of poor people have problems with it.

The system is set up to milk poor people dry. Banks have overdraft charges, utilities have reconnect fees, and you get fined for having a vehicle that isn't entirely up to snuff. When you don't have money for everything, you have to pick and choose what bills to pay.

The upcoming "war" isn't going to be about race, it's going to be about class.

That's very nice.

Situations are trivially different to all but the most obtuse/racist among us.

Do you understand why they are different?

Also racism can coexist with other problems.