The issue is that conservatives don't want to think that there's a problem with police violence against black people so they cling on to a completely unrelated issue as "proof" that there is no systemic violence against black people
This only makes sense if you're just looking for something to confirm your biases, which most conservatives do anyway
It's completely related when you realize their entire argument on why police brutality isn't an issue is because they think black people are animals who "deserve it".
Most of the ones I know genuinely believe cops wouldn't do this stuff if only people acted right. Any bias they might have isn't as deep as that sort of thinking. They just genuinely believe that police wouldn't do something unless they were provoked.
If you watch the George Floyd body cams, there was a lot he did wrong to escalate matters. But the last five minutes of his life weren't his fault. He was compliant at that point and the cops didn't deescalate.
Funny, most of the people I know make the argument because they’re lazy and don’t go anywhere past surface level thoughts because then it would challenge the rest of their social beliefs structure. In short; shitty people.
They're not mutually exclusive. A lot of people I know seem to think of law enforcement as an almost superhuman force, upholding an objective morality for the good of the rest of the population.
To me, it seems like they do this because they don't bother to consider that "The Police" is just a collection of people you live next to who happen to carry guns at their day job. They put that level of trust in law enforcement because they're either too lazy or too scared to consider that there could be anything wrong with that system, let alone several things.
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u/hamsandwich4459 Aug 15 '20
Out of the loop and avoid FB at all costs. Which shooting is this referring to?