Posted on 06/16/2020 2:27:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The family of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia black jogger killed by white neighbors, met with President Trump Tuesday before he signed an executive order on police reforms on Tuesday.
Joining a handful of other prominent victims of racist violence, Arbery’s relatives met Trump and some of his GOP allies behind closed doors at the White House.
“To all of the hurting families, I want you to know that all Americans mourned by your side, your loved ones will not have died in vain,” Trump said at a ceremony in the Rose Garden. “We are one nation. We grieve together. And we heal together.”
Surviving relatives of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by police last month, and other relatives of prominent victims of police killings shunned the Trump event.
Civil rights leaders say Trump’s order is a fig leaf for the problems with racist policing in American and the incremental reforms will do little to change things.
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We will see if the Arbery family gets shunned by the likes of Al Sharpton and his boys, for having the audacity to meet with the hated Trump.
What did Arbery’s murder have to do with police anyway?
“””Surviving relatives of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by police last month,””””””
They spelled DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE wrong.
I don’t know - this is a “civilian” story vs. police. Not exactly the same thing.
I don’t much care for the nuance of this sentence:
“black jogger killed by white neighbors”
So he was just jogging for training/fun, and HIS neighbors who are white all came out of their houses and killed him?
For which there is zero evidence to support and indeed plenty of evidence to support the opposite. That does not mean racist cops don't exist...but that is not the same as it being systemic.
This killing had nothing to do with police. But In the Heat of the Moment this case has been swept up into discussions of black people being killed by police.
“It will do little to change things’
He’s just a voice of inspiration isn’t he?
Nothing, except in that it serves as an example of what “community alternatives to policing” actually look like.
Good catch. Nothing at all, really.
“What did Arbery’s murder have to do with police anyway?”
The killing had nothing to do with the police. The fact that the killers were not immediately arrested did have something to do with the police.
*rolling eyes* Can't be done for good without Con-Gress, I'm sorry to say.
Reluctance to charge his killers would be my guess.
If I'm not mistaken two people involved were almost immediately arrested after the police learned about it (video was put onto the internet). It took a while to arrest others (I think the one taking the video wasn't arrested immediately but was later.)
They are sent on de-funding the police, partially, for now then fully as the only solution.
Thank God for that.
Good bye.
You are mistaken. Arbery was killed in February and the police were well aware of it. The killers were not arrested until May. Local authorities refused to charge his killers; the state police had to do it.
Then--lucky days--poor old George got the knee on the neck and BOOM.
The Left dropped the Arbery case like yesterday's news and glommed onto the Minneapolis death...and their riots and looting crowd of BLM and Antifa "protestors" are off to the raciss.
It was only almost 3 months later it became politicized and led to charges and arrest
The older guy in the Arbery case was a former cop and a retired investigator for the prosecutor’s office. While it wasn’t actually a “police shooting,” is say it’s almost certainly that he brought a cop’s attitude to the scene.
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