Well, this information can be a game changer, can’t it?
If he was a crime suspect, encountering the police, now we wonder a lot of other things. Was he resisting arrest? Was he being questioned by the police about the crime? Did he start a physical confrontation with the officer because he was about to be arrested? There are many such questions to be asked. As more comes out, it seems to be NOT a case of a racist cop shooting a black man for no reason.
The cop/shooter was black. I’m still keeping the flat screen and the case of Jim Beam.
Nope. All facts that contradict the narrative will be ignored.
“Well, this information can be a game changer, can’t it?”
Yes it can. Suddenly the real question can become: why were the looters/arsonists so quick to victimize the innocent & unrelated on such a tenuous and non-sequitur a pretext? Such behavior has absolutely nothing to do with a possible “bad cop incident”, yet a huge number of people who knew nothing of that incident went absolutely feral all at once. Cop shoots suspect ... so ... loot and burn down a QT store? WTF?
Many of the organized/bussed-in protesters I can understand: they’re looking for any opportunity to stomp around waving signs and chant slogans about their favorite imputed outrage; those wanting to protest police had an excuse to here. They came, they protested, they got tear-gassed etc as they wanted to, they fled, they left. No new information will change their game, as they don’t want action/solutions, just a forum.
Some protesters make real sense: genuinely demanding accountability and order where the government was abdicating it, and genuinely dismayed at the amazing & misplaced show of force (militarized riot control imposed on basically peaceful protesters, while unrelated mass looting/burning/rioting was left alone? WTF?). New information can appease/dissuade them, as the gears of justice start moving in the right direction ... and reveal that their “good boy” wasn’t.
But the criminal rioters... They’re the ones that puzzle and concern me. Why did allegations of a “bad shoot” lead to violence unrelated thereto? How thin, really, is the veneer of society in some places? and how soon might that conflagration come to my neighborhood?
The big outrage is being deflated. Police brutality wasn’t after all, so whence the civic brutality of looters & friends?
Was he on PCP or crack and outta mind like he was outta hand?