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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
Georgia.
White man killing black man.
2+ months to place the men under arrest.
Yes, I fully admit I am assuming that the way those men were handled in this case would have been a 180 if the shooter was black. He literally had blood on his hands and still couldn't have been placed in cuffs and taken away.
Honest question: if the roles were reversed, a black man killing a white man in Georgia with blood on his hands, do you think he would have received the same treatment? You are correct......we will never know. But I have a pretty good idea how that body cam footage would have went.
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If the Black man was a former officer with direct ties to the District Attorney? I wouldn’t be surprised. The police contend they wanted to arrest the pair. They did not because of Jackie Johnson. Who is now facing charges of her own because of it:
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/our-fi...bery-case/amp/
I’d never doubt the blue wall of silence even for Black police officers.
But even if not we should be raising the bar on how police officers interact with Black suspects. Not lower it for white ones. And again, because of the way the police acted that day, whether racially-biased motivated or not, it’s almost 100% the reason Roddy just got convicted of a crime with a minimum of life in prison. So I’ll give them a pass on this one.