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Sanewashing: the old videos clearly showed the murder was in cold blood. I strongly oppose this capitulation to the right's framing that there was any ambiguity to begin with.
This clip shows that he walks in front of the car, and then approaches as she's already in motion, before killing her. And it shows the dog. It is insanely damning. And then you can compare it to other angles that show him a good two feet away with his first shot.
People are suddenly acting like the old videos don't even exist. I had to watch them because people refuse to be honest and you have to see shit for yourself.
I'm now pissed that I was made to watch those videos and pissed that they're gaslighting that they suddenly don't exist and/or matter.
100%. Same for Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Chicago. The guy tried driving away from an illegal stop and they executed him.
Somewhat unrelated, but
That whole thing (person getting stopped and in his case EXECUTED for simply being of the "wrong" race) reminds me of this episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. While it was nothing new to the black community in the US (or anyone with their eyes open I guess), I think for a lot of people sheltered from these issues it would've been eye opening. Personally I grew up in a very white country, in a small town, so by my teenage years I'd probably SEEN a few black people in real life, but never talked to one. Discovered Fresh Prince when I was about 13 or 14 so it might actually have been one of the first pieces of media I'd seen that actually kinda showed the systemic racism issue to me. Later of course I saw all kinds of news articles and discussion online.
One would think that in the span of 35 years (that's how long ago this episode aired, it was Oct 1990), things get better, society gets more educated and tolerant... But it's worse now. Way worse. I'm gonna have to blame Murdoch media and the complete disembowelment of the American education system for this one.
Damn, I hadn't even heard about this one. I just looked it up. It's insane.