Nubian_Legend
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This is not entirely true. Incidents like these are complex and multifactorial. We do have problems with being good and respecting authority and following proper procedure. Society has to respect the police and that's what these Grand Juries did. I agree that these people should not be dead. But I would not want either of them in my community. They were sociopaths. They broke laws and they defied authority. Why are we ignoring the dozens of young black men murdered every day? Why don't we hold "the community" responsible when they refuse to cooperate and when they protect the murderers? How would you feel if you were a cop and the witnesses refuse to cooperate? Would you begin to think that maybe black lives are cheap?
What's so complex about a guy getting chocked out on camera all the while saying "I can't breathe"? seems pretty cut and dry to me. I'm sure there's plenty worse things going on in your community than some guy selling loose cigarettes. How about this? How about you start snitching on all the covert white supremacists, bigots-in-badge, insider traders, and other corrupt authority figures in your family/community structure and we'll do the same? We can do without the whole presumptuous finger waging "I know what's best for you even though I haven't walked a mile in your shoes" type of thing. You don't have the moral authority to tell us anything about snitching. It's easy to be a snitch when your safety is guaranteed by the institutions, it's a different matter when it's not. People got kids and loved ones to think about, I guess we should do the right thing and rat on the boss operating next door. Very brilliant there chief. I don't see how anything could go wrong.
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