Hindsite wrote:We need a "White Lives Matter" group to protest and cause mayhem in the city to wake the Mayor up from his slumber. Maybe an FBI investigation would help.
Here was the extent of it. Very white. Too bad the deceased's son didn't lead a chimpout out because that would have been cool to see!
One Degree wrote:Race is a factor, but I don't think it is the major factor.
It is just as big a factor as the police apparently, being poorly trained. There is no way around the race angle, which is why even though this is a big story, there is virtually no commentary by the usual pundits out there offering their opinions and putting their spin on things. It goes against both the left agenda pro-minority agenda and the right pro-police agenda.
One Degree wrote:I think our outrage is determined by our 'perceived' level of value the individual had to society. This lady is presented as an ideal citizen. I think, with Black victims also, most people's outrage is determined by this perceived value even though political motivations disguise it somewhat with black victims.
I agree to some extent. Race is really only a factor because we had to put up with the "evil racist police killing blacks for no reason narrative for the past five years."
But I think that much of the outrage as white people seeing a vicitm that looks like she could be a wife, mother, sister, aunt, cousin of their own. With blacks it's pretty much the same thing. I also remember the police killing an Asian woman out west and the community there took action to some extent.
Shaw King writes about this tribalism.
I don't know how familiar you are with the concept of "mirror neurons." Google it. It's some deeply fascinating stuff. Simply put, it's the concept of how when you see something happening to someone who looks like you, or reminds you of yourself, you have neurons in your brain that fire off almost like you yourself are experiencing the thing you are watching. For the past three years, African Americans across the country have been watching the horrors of police brutality and internalizing so much of the pain as those mirror neurons fire off. The pain and the plight are personal.But this whole incident just exposed what a shit show most city's police departments are. Minneapolis' police chief, who resigned was (the first) female, an openly gay and a Native American.
The mayor is also a woman who celebrated the Somali who got on the police force. She has been caught flatfooted and has no clue what to do or how to react.
What I do know is that if a white police officer has shot an unarmed Somali woman for no reason, he'd be arrested immediately. Why isn't the Somali officer being arrested?
I wonder if the driver has any hearing or eyebrows left?
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