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Cops are sociopaths and murderers

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Caitlin's inflammatory opening sentence leaves the impression that the deceased was unarmed and that he was "executed." My understanding is that original body camera videos were for some reason cropped and didn't show the gun he was holding a fraction of a second before he was hit with a bullet, but my purpose here is not to adjudicate his death, just to point out that Caitlin has fallen for a narrative of police oppression targeting minorities.

Neither minorities nor men are the sole victims of unjustified police killing. Calling attention to that problem and fixing it will benefit everyone in the US, so it seems if people really wanted to fix it, they would report and talk about the majority of people killed by police who are white, because there are a lot more white voters that will vote for reform than there are people of any color who would vote to abolish or de-fund the police. Yet hardly anybody even has heard of Tony Timpa, Daniel Shavers or Justine Damond, and there were no riots after their deaths. So I have to wonder, what's the real agenda behind the constant inflammatory reports of the killing of POC? The elites reporting these killing apparently aren't seriously interested in reducing the overall level of police violence.

Caitlin is falling for one of the elite divide et impera tactics. She should rethink her rhetoric, because she's feeding the "white supremacy," "white privilege," "black victim" narrative that's dividing society, especially the working class, who are in no way "privileged" or high up in the supposed "cis-gendered, heterosexual, white patriarchy."

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