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Are you denying that there is a racial component to 'black lives matter'? Instead of a less racially charged name like 'End police brutality'?
Where was Briahna when Ashli Babbitt was summarily executed by Capitol police for trespassing unarmed?
Where was Briahna when James Fields was charged multiple life sentences for hitting a car in front of him during a protest with no law enforcement control?
In the same exact video Briahna even mentions Rittenhouse in a disparaging manner.
By Briahna's logic, nobody should have attacked Rittenhouse. He may have committed some kind of offense by 'crossing state lines' with a rifle or being at a riot or what not, but that does not justify attempting to murder him with a gun or a skateboard!
I don't see how this informs her motivation for decreasing law enforcement against her kin.
Here is the quote:
My prior is that this is an unexpected statement coming out of a Harvard's graduate's mouth.
It seems that they're letting all kind of riffraffs in these schools now.
Good for diversity right? We need more prosecutors and judges that are familiar with petty criminals, career criminals, otherwise, how could they possibly do a good job?
Virgil Texas also looks like the kind of guy that would hate the white tribe and would stand for black criminals over white families.
Here she is in that video claiming that police violence affects blacks disproportionately.
Which is not true, black people interact more frequently with the police, due to the whole committing half of the violent crime thing, they are not disproportionately killed when adjusted for frequency of interaction.
She even says at 17:36
Imagine somebody claiming that it would be reasonable to ask politicians
Seems like she wants people to go out of their way to do things specifically for her kin.
Some whitish people identify with the black tribe, or at least against the white tribe. There are a number of articles written by whitish journalists out there that essentially amount to 'white people are terrible'. That does not say anything of black people's motivations for supporting their own tribe and selectively demanding more relaxed law enforcement.
That was 50 years ago and these people are still around, some of them barely did any time for terrorism.
Susan Rosenberg was involved in BLM for example.
The default of American society is to favor blacks and disfavor whites, at all levels of government.
We are all complicit in this anti-white system, again, that does not really say anything about the motivation of black people themselves.
If violence, such as killing a 13 yo kid is a bad thing, then surely, black criminals committing ~50% of the violent crime is a bad thing.
If one wanted to alleviate this issue, and a more violent police was found to reduce the rate of violent crime, wouldn't that be progress, according to Briahna?
If the police killing 10% more innocent black kids every year was able to reduce the violent crime committed against black kids, to reduce the overall total black victims of violence, shouldn't BLM support that solution?
The murder rate is currently rising in majority-black cities in the last couple years, and this is associated with the police pulling back due to public outcry over brutality.
I don't know if causation can be found, but it seems that the public outcry against the police is hurting black people.
I believe that Briahna should stop advocating for more safety for black criminals.
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