:cool-zone: end this fucking blight of a country. love and power to the people who head out to protest tonight.
don't watch this if you value your sanity.
:cool-zone: end this fucking blight of a country. love and power to the people who head out to protest tonight.
don't watch this if you value your sanity.
He ran because he knew he was a dead man if he didn't get away.
The parts I watched at least, that's what I instantly understood. They stopped him and pulled him out of a car at a major intersection, gave him contradictory instructions and beat him over objections, so he bolted as soon as he got free. They pursued in cars and caught him at another more isolated residential intersection and tortured him to death. I don't have the time or stomach I think to watch the entire sequence unabridged but that's just what I took away.
One fucking million percent. ANYONE who can watch that video in the year 2023 and still say "he shouldn't have run" is a racist piece of dogshit who for one reason or another is fundamentally incapable of identifying with the basic fucking humanity of Tyre Nichols. He ran because he was absolutely terrified for his life and he was absolutely right to be so!
This case is really going to solidify who's the racist in your lives because there's literally nothing to defend the cops on and nothing to blame the kid for in this one. Floyd was the same too, but chuds used flimsy excuses like he was on drugs so he deserved to die and that Chauvin was following standard police procedure...of choking someone with a knee on their neck.
Yeah even if I was safely pulled over and a cop tried to pull me out of my car for no reason I'd fucking run. If that was happening at a major intersection I'd be fearing for my life that I was about to get beaten and/or killed.
They have know their mask has slipped off to say "just don't run" in response to this because if a cop says or acts like they are going to kill you, then what options do you have? Peacefully surrendering on the spot isn't one of them. If it was then cops wouldn't get the option to use lethal force when they're faced with the same--or far less.
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That's one thing that was absolutely drilled in to me about fighting when I was a kid; never, ever hit someone in the head. Go for the stomach, kick them in the balls, kick them in the kneecaps, bite them, gouge their eyes out, whatever. But getting hit in the head is how people die suddenly and unexpectedly. you clock someone in the jaw, they go unconscious and brain themselves on the pavement, you're up for murder charges. They go down, you kick them in the head, they have a brain bleed, you're up for murder charges. Biting and gouging is just kids fucking around, shots to the head are when you're trying to kill someone.
"The Slave Catchers Win the Race" (1823, colorized)