He in fact did have plates and filed suit against the police department. An Army officer was pepper-sprayed in Virginia after being pulled over for supposedly not having plates on his vehicle. We're all too familiar with the headlines: Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed this month during a routine traffic stop just miles from where Floyd was asphyxiated. Here's how we forced them out in Los Angeles.Īnd incidents since Floyd's death continue to reinforce the idea that Black lives don't matter to America. High school students: Police don't belong in schools.
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Yes, we've seen this movie way too many times before.
More than 4,000 Black people have been lynched in this country, many of whom had not been given a fair trial. Previous generations endured insults that were much more blatant and open: An all-white jury acquitted the white men who drowned 14-year-old Emmett Till after he supposedly flirted with a white woman (the woman later recanted part of her story). Of those, only 36 were convicted. And a disproportionate number of civilians killed every year are Black. Legal action was taken against 104 officers in murder or manslaughter cases between 20. More than 6,000 civilians were killed by officers over a five-year period beginning in 2013, according to data reported by Time. Officer convictions for killing civilians are rare. It was a grave and depressing insult when the officer who killed Breonna Taylor after barging into her apartment and shooting her in the middle of the night wasn't charged in her death. It was equally dehumanizing when Tulsa officer Betty Shelby was acquitted in 2017 after she shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man who was standing by the side of the road on a dark night, trying to get help starting his broken down vehicle. But as Black Americans, we've grown to expect that pain and humiliation. The fact that so much evidence against a man like Chauvin, who had nearly two dozen complaints on his record, still has a strong chance of resulting in a not-guilty verdict is insulting.
There is no doubt that a guilty verdict in such an overwhelmingly clear case shouldn't feel like a victory.
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