"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Not defending her- but, isn't she catholic? Maybe it's a religious view -Jesus sacrificed his life 🤷🏻♀️
ETA: I'm just breathing a little easier knowing there may be peace in my city tonight. Little focused on that. I'll pick back up on other BS later. Right now- Kumbaya
There's no real justice, because you can't bring Mr. Floyd back to life, but the jury did the right thing and I do think that counts for something. There is such a long way to go, it can be discouraging, yet I see this as a step in the right direction.
I think it was fear...knowing he was going to a place where his kind...dirty white cops...aren't taken too kindly to.
I hope so. They can try to keep him safe. They will not be successful. He smugly murdered George Floyd on camera in broad daylight while knowing he was being filmed.
Larry Nassar was in PC, too. He still got the shit beat out of him.
Pelosi’s remarks remind me of a Ta-Nehisi Coates interview where he was talking about our narrative about reparations and “overcoming” slavery - as if centuries of people living and dying slavery is somehow redeemed by their progeny living successful, happy lives (if we can even get there as an expectation). Not that reparations shouldn’t happen, but we need to be careful how we speak and think of it. So much of our narrative around racism is really, really awful and dehumanizing.
I’m glad justice is being done in this case, but I’m still feeling strongly the injustice that it happened at all and that these verdicts are so few and hard-fought. I hope his family finds some comfort in their grief tonight.
Post by estrellita on Apr 20, 2021 18:31:09 GMT -5
I am shocked, in a good way!
I made the usual mistake of reading comments. People think the "mob" intimidated the jury and they feared for their lives so they voted guilty. It must be exhausting to be so stupid and ridiculous.
I sat at my desk, tearing up, as I watched the coverage. Most of the people at my school had no idea what was going on, and I quickly realized I needed to turn this off on order to get through the rest of the day. Wow, I’m not even sure what the words are right now. I hope this gives anyone pause that thinks a badge and a gun make you invincible.
I sat at my desk, tearing up, as I watched the coverage. Most of the people at my school had no idea what was going on, and I quickly realized I needed to turn this off on order to get through the rest of the day. Wow, I’m not even sure what the words are right now. I hope this gives anyone pause that thinks a badge and a gun make you invincible.
George's brother said it in the presser, "Being the law doesn't make you above the law." Period. Full Stop.
Because of how quickly they came back, I was so anxious from the moment I heard the verdict was back until it was read. The verdict was a relief. I don't know that's really the right word, but it's the only one I can come up with.
Post by NewOrleans on Apr 20, 2021 21:08:16 GMT -5
I don’t know what to feel. Justice is served in his case but it’s all such a terrible waste of lives and so much trauma inflicted.
A civil rights lawyer was on NPR not long before the verdict and he was pointing out how the prosecution distanced him from the badge, from The Police, when his own colleagues testified against him. That was a successful strategy and a methodical line of reasoning. But by distancing him from The Police, it’s like it simultaneously protects the institution? Like he’s a fall guy for them all, the rogue individual who strayed. It’s a weird form of invisibility for the whole system.
Breonna Taylor. John Crawford III. Tamir Rice. Sandra Bland. Eric Garner. Mike Brown.