Ahmaud Arbery’s family meets Trump before police reform ceremony in break with civil rights leaders

NY Daily News ^ | June 2020 | David Goldliner

[CondoleezzaProtege]

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.

[Tell It Right]

What did Arbery’s murder have to do with police anyway?

[shelterguy]

“””Surviving relatives of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by police last month,””””””

They spelled DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE wrong.

[the OlLine Rebel]

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?

[Republican Wildcat]

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.

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.

[Dilbert San Diego]

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.

[HollyB]

“It will do little to change things’

He’s just a voice of inspiration isn’t he?

[The Pack Knight]

Nothing, except in that it serves as an example of what “community alternatives to policing” actually look like.

[hinckley buzzard]

Good catch. Nothing at all, really.

[FewsOrange]

“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.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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.

*rolling eyes* Can't be done for good without Con-Gress, I'm sorry to say.

[DoodleDawg]

What did Arbery’s murder have to do with police anyway?

Reluctance to charge his killers would be my guess.

[Tell It Right]

"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.)

[matt04]

They are sent on de-funding the police, partially, for now then fully as the only solution.

[SmokingJoe]

Surviving relatives of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by police last mont............. shunned the Trump event.

Thank God for that.
Good bye.

[DoodleDawg]

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.)

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.

[RoosterRedux]

This case (Arbery) was being set up as the trigger event by the Left for riots and looting, but, try as they might, the Left couldn't get its riot/loot base sufficiently fired up on this case.

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.

[silverleaf]

No, the incident occurred in Feb, no one was charged, after the video surfaced and the AUTOPSY confirmed the video and narrative ( jogger attacked man holding gun and tried to take the weapon, was killed in the struggle he initiated) I believe the DA refused to press charges and 4 different prosecutors refused to take the case

It was only almost 3 months later it became politicized and led to charges and arrest

[Alberta's Child]

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.