BLM protests include non-black people who were murdered by cops.
One thing that a lot of people don’t realize/forget is that MOST of the protests weren’t even about George Floyd or they were but they were mostly focused on LOCAL murders. This one, for example, included a white guy who off his meds at a pornography store and had siezures and died in a similar way to George Floyd.
His name shows up in memes now as a “gotcha” [who talks about the WHITE GUY HUH?] – but they did. In 2016 when it happened and in 2019 when they released the footage.
But the thing that differs between these cases? It has a disproportionate effect on the black communities where it happens.
Why not the white communities as much? Because white people usually are taught:
“Oh, mental health? Yeah, so sad”.
“Oh at a pornography store? Yeah, sin is bad.”
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“It was also about Botham Jean, a black man shot and killed by a Dallas police officer after she entered his apartment believing it was her own. It was about Darius Tarver, a black man shot and killed by Denton police after being tased while suffering a mental breakdown. It was about Tony Timpa, a white man suffocated by Dallas police after he was arrested, like Floyd. It was about Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman shot and killed through a window by Fort Worth police while she babysat her ne. The rally was about all police brutality, fatal or not, and its disproportionate effect on the black community.”
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