damn, didn’t know i called him a white supremacist, dipshit 🤔 or that they all were trying to murder him while, with the exception of one of them, completely unarmed 🤔
for the most part, I let people give their opinions because they’re entitled to them. but when you run around spreading misinformation and shoving words down my throat, then you’re fucking annoying me. so if you truly care enough to say this bullshit on my post, then you should care enough to read what I have to say, being that I didn’t say anything in the first place. and if you don’t? shut the fuck up and move on with your life.
the one guy who was armed, Gaige Grosskreutz, was there as a part of the people’s revolution movement as a medic. why did he have a gun? because it’s his right as an American citizen. but guess what? he never fired his gun that night. did he raise his gun? yes, in response to having a rifle pointed at him. so isn’t it rittenhouse’s right as well to bear arms? of course. but what was his purpose at that protest? if you genuinely think that this child was parading around with a fucking rifle to protect a car lot, you’re lying to yourself.
since you guys are so interested in the topic of white supremacy, let’s take a second and acknowledge the fact that one of the people that this kid killed was white.
what you people don’t seem to understand is that this picture shows a single case of a black man getting shot by police but is symbolic of every black person that gets shot by police. but let’s strip that down even further and look at just the topic of police brutality. police are allowed to shoot in cases where the suspect is likely to cause bodily harm death. in many of these situations, that’s not the case. and as much as so many of you want to to believe this isn’t about race, it is. a black man is seen as posing a threat to police while unarmed is many cases while a light skinned child— doesn’t matter if he’s 25% latino because at first glance, he’s white and therefore not seen as an immediate threat unless he’s pointing a gun directly at an officer— walking around with a gun after shooting multiple people is not. it’s cool that some of you live in a world where racism isn’t a problem and is a thing of the past because it doesn’t directly affect you, but it affects the majority of us and that’s the problem. it’s not YOUR problem, therefore it’s not a problem. the correlation between police brutality against black people is a topic that’s been addressed multiple times, that dates farther back that 2015. it’s systematic. and if you care enough to drop your bias and educate yourself on it, I recommend doing some research.
the bottom line is that police don’t get to decide which lives matter and which ones don’t and that’s the point here. what exactly does that mean? as an example, george floyd was unarmed when he was killed by police. but after scrubbing his criminal background and what he ate for breakfast, all of a sudden his murder is justified.
if someone is pointing a gun at them, running at them with a weapon, or holding someone at gun/knifepoint? sure, that is indeed an immediate threat to police. but a first responder who’s sleeping in her bed, a man with a counterfeit bill, or a man with his hands raised in the air, don’t pose any type of immediate threat to warrant deadly force. was jacob blake twiddling his thumbs on the sidewalk? no. he was just the icing on the cake. his back was turned as he was getting into his car. there was a knife on the passenger floorboard, but not in his hand. there is no video evidence showing that he was wielding a knife with intent to kill or harm any officers.
in no way does being against police brutality defend the background of every individual black person who is the victim of police brutality. but there’s only so many fucking times that we can say: it adds up. it happens too many goddamn times for it to just be an isolated incident.
so, this picture at face value, is police shooting a black man in the back 7 times, wielding no weapon while a white passing child walks freely after shooting 3 people with police tipping their hats to him. read above for the deeper meaning. and while you’re at it, pipe the fuck down.
