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This thread features a great amount of short videos featuring police officers acting inappropriately towards protesters, harassing, and even assaulting them. In almost all of these cases, the people targeted are being peaceful and not inciting any sort of + https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1266952661791674370
This thread features a great amount of short videos featuring police officers acting inappropriately towards protesters, harassing, and even assaulting them. In almost all of these cases, the people targeted are being peaceful and not inciting any sort of + https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1266952661791674370
Violence or aggression. The reason why I share this thread is because I believe it's important for us to see what's happening at these protests, and just how potentially dangerous it is for some of these people who are protesting the wrongful death of George Floyd +
As well as the press who are covering the protests. I'd like to note that the protests in Ohio earlier this month, where many were protesting the government shutdown due to COVID-19, had people standing at the front of the Ohio statehouse while armed +
But they didn't see anywhere close to the police resistance that we see happening at the BLM protests today. Furthermore, the president came out in support of the Ohio protesters, but glorified violence on his Twitter when speaking on the BLM protests. +
There is a major problem with the treatment of POC in the US today, with black people being clearly discriminated against in our judicial system, and experiencing more hardships in life than the average white person would face, simply due to the color of their skin. +
It would be ignorant for me to not acknowledge the privilege I have as a white man, and I must show my support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with this, I will be more vocally supportive in my day-to-day life for reform in favor of POC representation and +
The BLM movement, while actively resisting any racist speech or racist banter I may encounter. May God help us to love one another more, and I pray that we would come to see a day in America where our skin color doesn't give us an automatic advantage or disadvantage when born.
Also I'm not arguing in favor of being "anti-cop" and I don't hate all police officers now, but there's a very clear abuse of power and abuse of authority by certain police officers happening at these protests.
