Tag: blue lives matter
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George Floyd and blindness to justice: when video evidence isn’t enough to convince some
We have the officer dead to rights. I’ve seen comments “well we only have part of the event on that video.” So what? We have the part that matters. We have the part where Floyd is begging for his life and saying he’s about to die and then dying while handcuffed and pinned down, and…
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No charges filed in Alton Sterling death
Of the many deaths we have footage of where police have used deadly force, there’s few that appear as egregious as the 2016 killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the video, the officers have him held down. They’re on top of him. Sterling allegedly reached for his pocked (he was armed at…
Josh Benner 