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Originally Posted by 81MC
I don’t know man, “justice for Floyd” and all that... Justice for pointing a gun at a pregnant woman’s belly should probably be death. If someone did that to my wife when she was pregnant I would have zero issue with their death, however it was administered.
I can certainly see why protests in the name of a justice for a violent criminal would be infuriating. The black community suffers a lot of injustice, and has a lot more noble characters affected by it, than the names that get used (I would imagine that’s the frustration).
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How about this. If you have a problem with people calling for justice for George Floyd because he doesn't live up to your standards of a man who shouldn't be murdered by the police, how about justice for Tamir Rice instead?
Tamir was a 12-year old African-American boy from Cleveland. He had no criminal record, no issues with drugs, nothing that you could possibly find objectionable. On November 22, 2014, he was playing with a toy gun in a park, something I (and I'm guessing you as well) did literally thousands of times as a kid. Some white Karen, or whatever name we use for the male equivalent of Karen, called 911 to report a black male with a gun.
Police appeared on the scene. According to an analysis of video evidence, the responding officer opened fire on Tamir
within two seconds of his arrival. Tamir died from the gunshot wounds the next day. A grand jury declined to charge the officer with any wrong-doing.
