NEITHER of these cases were racial. Otherwise, Chavin would have been charged with a hate crime, and racism would have been brought up at trial. It wasn’t.That was a terrible incident by the police as well. I would argue that this is a police incompetence issue, not a racial one.
In that particular incident, I put more blame on the idiot shouting commands, not the shooter. Langley was the one who escalated the situation unnecessarily. Shaver was obviously stressed out as it was and Langley was screaming orders that even would have been confusing to someone who was sober. “Put your hands up, leave your hands up, now crawl toward me.” Terrible.
Brailsford, the shooter, reacted to the situation. Yes, he made a mistake but it was also a split-second decision that he was forced to make so I can’t criticize him too much. Langley however…
At the time that happened, I was arguing about it with several conservatives on a different message board. It seems like there are far too many boot-lickers on the right who will defend ANY actions by the police, including those by Chauvin and by Langley.
Liberals MADE it as if it had something to do with race, and then the BLM anti-American terrorist group took over from there.