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I never said people didn't care, but I definitely didn't see a lot about the previous victims compared to Good and Pretti, in fact I never heard about González and Garcia.
It's just a concerning and upsetting trend I've seen.
You're seeing the effectiveness of community organisation efforts to impact larger groups of people. That community was largely established in response to events like Floyd, González and Garcia.
The event with Pretti was filmed from multiple angles by community members. The evidence is unequivocal.
There was zero justification, and it's documented. That is why there's such a major uptick in response. ..and that documentation was in direct response to the prior wrongdoing which was not in response to white people being threatened.
This is a lot of people, from different backgrounds, looking out for each other. What more do you want?
I had heard of them. I read articles about them. I was upset for them.
Apparently their murders weren't caught on video. That has much more to do with it than any imagined racial component.
The entire point of the OP comic was saying "white people didn't care until white people died," and it wasn't even subtle.
I'm white. I heard about them. Garcia lives down the street from me and I have tears in my eyes over his death, over his 9 year old daughter who no longer has a dad
I'm not sure what the point of your argument is here. You have people uniting, in solidarity, against a common enemy. Do you need more?