New, disturbing details have emerged about an incident that got a Kansas sheriff's deputy charged with second-degree murder for the death of a Black man in custody, reported The Guardian on Friday — with the death bearing a striking resemblance to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis five years...
    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      48·
      13 days ago

      Honestly after Floyd and the reaction of some people, I’m not convinced we learned a damn thing.

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        12 days ago

        I’ll never forget someone in my immediate family calling me a fascist to another member of my family because I attended BLM protests.

        There was no irony, they really think people who simply believe that black lives have value are fascists.

        I don’t even have words to try to pick this one apart. This is what we (the sane people with empathy) are up against.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
    151·
    12 days ago

    I wonder how many more people police will kill before Dems reckon with the fact that going hard against defund the police from 2020-24 was a shitty thing to do

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
      101·
      12 days ago

      The Democrats didn’t want police reform.

      Biden ended the lockdowns months early because BLM was forcing police reform.