Posted on 02/24/2022 5:18:35 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
For people around the world, the killing of George Floyd was about race. A white police officer, with three other officers nearby, kneeled on the neck of a Black man until he stopped breathing, and protests erupted across the country. Corporations and governments promised change, and a new generation of civil rights leaders rose up.
Yet in the courtrooms where those officers faced trial for their roles in Floyd’s killing — including the three who were convicted Thursday — race was rarely mentioned, at least explicitly, and lawyers and judges told jurors not to consider it.
The disconnect between the public prism through which the case was viewed and its handling in court is due partly to the specific charges federal prosecutors pursued, which didn’t include a hate crime. But to some, it also reflected the failure of the legal system to confront issues of race, and how a justice system that often seeks to be colorblind may be stacked against people of color.
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For lots of people around the world everything is about race.
White people can OD on Fentanyl too.
“For lots of people around the world everything is about race.”
and gender.
All for Faggotry those under the judgment of Romans 1:18-32 are surrendering,
Blacks bitch all the time about giving their kids THE TALK......I think it’s about time all whites, any age or gender nationality also get THE TALK......Black dems are all about playing the victim, especially if it destroys you...Most not all black dems are lazy, stupid,violent or all 3....Group of black dems spell trouble.....
I feel it’s time whites,Asians and Hispanics have THE TALK....Black dems see all of life in black and white...Period...If you aren’t black, they you’re the enemy.....
Stop capitalizing “black”, G-D it!
Because there were no racial elements to the Floyd arrest.
Are we still swinging from this same branch?
Cannot we move on?
Beat the dead horse.
“…about race….”
Because the treasonous “American “ press and socialists tell them that it IS about race.
Repeat enough, show simple pix…..you know. Rinse and repeat.
DITTO!
Floyd? Did somebody kill Pink Floyd?
Only racial elements galore to the aftermath.
As predictable.
SPJNK.
Not true (See Tagline.). The coroner ruled that George Floyd died from heart failure due to a massive overdose of street drugs.
And note the wokeness of "white" and "Black".
You mean sex.
Floyds death was about resisting arrest and drug addition
I thought he died from a Drug Overdose while resisting arrest?
Riot mongering?
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