George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter

Post by pjc50 » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 1:24 PM UTC

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Especially compared to other countries, the US police seem to show quite the restrained considering most countries do not allow to carry weapons. It is a significant risk for safety of course. But if you look at the data, the often believed stereotype of US police being glorified cowboys seems to be quite untrue. Frankly I am a bit cynical about politicians declaring the need for police reform. In my country protests…

> considering most countries do not allow to carry weapons Imagine being legally allowed to own and carry a gun and getting killed because you legally own and carry your gun. How is that logic? https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/06/22/philando-castil...

Post by hef19898 » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 1:26 PM UTC

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I pseudo-randomly sampled 30 videos... Almost all of them had outright wrong, or heavily misleading titles and/or descriptions with contradictory claims in the comments - and almost none of them provided context to the police actions. This list is really more about stoking emotions than providing evidence of anything. I mean look at this one... https://twitter.com/jayjanner/status/1267111893753307137 A large volume o…

So, for the example you provide the only contradictory claims come from accounts that have very few followers. The few posts saying "she was throwing things" have fewer than 10 followers. But, also, rubber bullets are less lethal, not non lethal, and so they should be reserved for situations where life is at risk. If she wasn't throwing molotov cocktails or bricks they shouldn't have used rubber bullets on her. The o…

Post by SketchySeaBeast » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

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With all due respect, 1984 has a much higher cultural impact and awareness than ATLA. The show isn't that well known outside of current 20-30 year olds.

Frankly... among my generation of roughly 30 year olds, I'd expect Avatar the Last Airbender to have higher cultural impact than 1984 (which was written in 1949). Most of us were forced to read 1984 and didn't really enjoy it. ATLA however, is something that we organically grew up with through high-school / college and actually paid attention to. My group of friends would be aware of 1984 concepts... such as "Big Bro…

Post by TeaDrunk » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

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Thousands of police officers are not killed actually, their jobs are actually not even the 10 most dangerous jobs in America. As a black man you are more likely to be killed by a cop than it is likely a cop dies in the line of duty (ftr around 1 in every 1000 black men and boys are expected to be killed by police. In 2019 there are over 600,000 law enforcement officers but the Officer Down statistic lists 106 deaths.…

> As a black man you are more likely to be killed by a cop than it is likely a cop dies in the line of duty Same goes for criminals. And this is the mistake in your argumentation. Around 2.2% of black men were imprisoned in 2018 in the US ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/252871/imprisonment-rate... ). It's not per se outrageous that 5% or so of criminals die in the hands of the police, in a country with major so…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

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There is one UK example which is actually a counter example where the police allowed a statue to be destroyed instead of intervening and creating a potentially dangerous altercation.

So they allowed a mob to circumvent the legislative/democratic process of monument removal and it's an example of a "good" action? Mobs are not the law.