To mischaracterize protests calling for accountability for police as inciting violence against police is deeply dishonest. And using Brinsleys actions as evidence of incitement is also dishonest, especially coming from people who, for months, have argued that the cops who killed Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, John Crawford, Jonathan Ferrell, Darrien Hunt, Tamir Rice, and others, each acted in a vacuum, just a few bad apples and not representative of cops as a whole, but Ismaaiyl Brinsley is wholly a product of protests that are three months old. Further, to set the murders of these cops and #BlackLivesMatter in opposition to one another, one must disappear [his] attempted murder of [his ex-girlfriend] Shaneka Thompson. This violent spree started with the attempted murder of Shaneka Thompson. It is wholly indecent to write her out of the narrative of what happened because the attempt to kill her is inconvenient to the narrative that Ismaaiyl Brinsley is a black man representative of the entire black community who just wanted to kill cops.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:40:09 +0000
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