Details are important, but the biggest detail is that this is happening all the time. That is the major issue here. The anger isn't over just one person, but a consistent and ongoing problem.
Even if this one case ends up having some contributing factors that partly explain the unwarranted excessive force, the general unrest we are seeing exists because of the bigger picture.
It is just an undeniable fact that black people are disproportionately impacted by police brutality. Not all of the victims are going to be upstanding citizens, but that shouldn't take away from the larger issue.
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