Since one featured meme in PoliticsTOO tonight mentioned alleged victims of BLM, here’s one list of alleged victims of police brutality. It’s a lot of names (and quite a few more than the other list), but even then it’s surely not comprehensive.
(Side-note: It appears this is only a list of people actually killed by police: and let’s not forget there are 1000 different ways police can mistreat you that don’t rise to the level of literal murder.)
Each of these police killings was under different circumstances, and some (likely) small fraction of them may have even been “justified.” George Floyd’s death clearly was not, as anyone who’s seen the video footage could tell you. He was unarmed, handcuffed, completely helpless on the ground and even stated “I can’t breathe.”
The appalling nature of Floyd’s death is unique, the whole thing was captured clearly on video, and it’s perhaps the worst of its kind I’ve ever seen. Not every alleged police murder is as unmistakable or well-documented.
However, in their totality they show an unmistakable pattern.
For all lives to matter, these lives have to matter too.
