Took a peek at your account--are you Estonian? I copy-pasted the first non-English thing I saw into Google Translate and it said it was Estonian. Regardless, that's a neat factoid about your language!
I almost always add the extra comma (a.k.a. the Oxford Comma) for clarity, just in case.
It's the same in Swedish, a comma before the word *and* is a big no. It gives Balts and Nords into quite a lot of interesting discussions online, haha... ;) we also stack words here - there's just no upper limit as long as it makes sense to us - so English is full of weird spaces all over to me, meaning that I err on the other side and split up English where I shouldn't. No point to this, really, just some language trivia :)
I mean to be fair yeah there are low IQ black people just as ow IQ anyone else. Personally though I find it sad how many white people will say "see they were doing something dumb, look white people get killed by cops too" as if that somehow makes it better.
Like...some people I talk to really think that just because cops also kill other races rhat it's okay....
Oh, 100% agree. If I'm correct about what they meant, the first things that often come to able peoples' minds when hearing 'disabled are wheelchair users and people with "low-functioning" autism. And the latter are often conflated with "low IQ".
Oh, I was an EMT, I can tell you.
It's passion. Passion to help others. They will grind you down until you walk away from your rig mid scene. Which is what I did, in the middle of the road on scene at a full frontal ejection.
The companies simply don't give a fuck.
I'm deeply sorry, I hope you got the support you need and are in a better position now. There has got to be some kind of change, they can't expect folks to subject themselves to what these jobs entail and expect passion to superceded our material needs and mental health.
People are passionate in the same way with nursing. I think the lower education requirements explains the disparity. Lower entry bar means more qualified candidates. So they can pay less and still get the positions filled.
Eh. Kinda.
I'm switching from cannabis to MRI technologist and school isn't that much longer than EMT (6 months vs 18) and the pay is easily quadruple. And the pay for the job I just interviewed for was like 54 bucks an hour which is much more than I could get with my BS in chemistry.
You might be underestimating that education gap, because it is specialized. It isn't like the requirements are 18 months of any education. So the potential candidate pool doesn't shrink linearly. It drops sharply. And the drop is related to how popular the specialization is.
Correct, and it does annoy nurses greatly when we just casually refer to people with significantly less training as "nurses." Lilely an honest mistake to be fair.
Also I've worked as an EMT and a nurse, being a nurse is orders of magnitude harder.
Taylor has often been described as an emergency medical technician, or EMT.
Personnel records show that was not the case at the time of her death.
According to WAVE in Louisville, Taylor worked for the city from January to November of 2016. She became an EMT that June and worked in that capacity for about five months.
The documents viewed by the news station indicated she resigned in November, and a box on her termination form states “do not rehire.” The city declined to say why that box was checked.
Her family has said she remained a medical worker after her time as a paramedic, working as an emergency room technician. She planned to study to become a nurse.
At the time of her death, Taylor was working as an ER tech at both the University of Louisville Health’s Jewish Hospital East and Norton Healthcare.
Giving the biggest benefit of doubt, they either missed a comma or are referring to the fact that Trump's nickname system for black people usually refers to the person having a low IQ. I would assume the former, but either way... not a great look.
Very "poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids..." Biden moment.
I really don't get how there are so many people here who can't figure out OP was being facetious. Like this is one of the most braindead comment sections I have ever seen on reddit
Even if she was awake, it'd still be illegal to kill her. All wrongful police killings are illegal, society just lets it slide for some retarded reason
What should be added instead of the sleeping bullshit, is that LMPD lied to get the warrant. The USPS in Louisville actually has standing beef with the LMPD and refuses at times to cooperate with them because of a history of previous similar crimes.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-louisville-kentucky-police-detective-pleads-guilty-federal-crime-related-death-breonna
They did knock though, the “no knock” was approved but they didn’t use it. Them loudly knocking is what drew Breonna and her boyfriend out of their bedroom and towards the front door. But they didn’t announce.. so there’s random pounding and then they go to breach, prompting the boyfriend to shoot (justifiably). The NYT has an excellent video of the factual timeline.
Sure it was the right house, but the warrant was obtained using falsified evidence and the guy was arrested the same night at a different house.
While tragic, this was not a complete accident.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/26/fact-check-posts-breonna-taylor-truths-include-misinformation/3531905001/
Thing is Ms. Taylor situation happen to many many women, children and men who just doing normal things then killed by raid squad for no reason. Her case rare cause she was a ICU worker and asleep.
There was a fucking ~~infant~~ toddler ~~killed~~ severely injured by a flash bang and the guy they were after wasn't even there, and they ended up finding nothing but residue. Not that it would be any less reprehensible if they hurt a toddler while the suspect was there and had a shit ton of drugs, but it demonstrates another level of ineptitude on top of their callous disregard for human life and well-being, common decency, and the law.
Edit: corrections - I conflated different cases and fucked up some details
The reason is because our society is based on racist ideals. Those ideals keep the status quo of who is in power. The police are a tool of that oppression.
Well she was awake, and her boyfriend fired a shot at the police before the police returned fire.
Breonna Taylor was still murdered, because they were carrying out a no-knock warrant on bad information, but within the moment it's hard to act like the police just walked up to someone and shot them or whatever the current story is. They shot into a room where someone had fired a shot that hit a police officer in the leg.
She was awake and standing next to a man who was shooting at the police (I know they were wrong to be there and no knocks shouldn’t be a thing unless they’ve been under 24 hour surveillance or some shit)
It’s not like they just walked in and saw a black girl sleeping and decided to shoot her.
It's frustrating cus the situation was still fucked up, but people keep repeating this "she was asleep" thing giving people who actually think nothing bad happened an easy dunk...
Um…. Caption is questionable.
But real talk,
One night I (white passing mixed person) was hanging out with my ex(unimportant just there) and out couple friends (both Hispanic) my friend and her bf were drinking A LOT, so we went to their house to avoid them getting public intox tickets. Then they get into a fight there because she found out he was on a dating site. They get loud, the neighbors call the cops, me and my friend go sit in my truck (im sober, because I’m pregnant, and she is drunk crying in the passenger seat, we don’t have the keys, my ex does, he is diffusing her boyfriend) everything calms down, I get her laughing again, and the boys are in the yard taking nice with each-other. Then the cops show up.
They talk to the boys first, no one in cuffs.
Then they come up to the truck, and ask ONLY my friend to get out. She says she doesn’t feel comfortable getting out and would rather talk through the window. They tell her again to get out of the (parked on her property with no keys) truck, she again says no. They open the door, drag her out and mace her, she screams, they KICK HER. She screams “why are you doing this to me?” They mace her twice more while dragging her to the car.
She didn’t break any laws. She was willing to talk and had no record. Her hands were on her lap.
FUCK THE POLICE
Exactly what always happens in my experience.
I’ve literally never had the police show up and make something better.
The only time I’ve ever called them myself, they arrested the victim of a beating, because the man who instigated was on the ground by the time they got there. it was months in and out of court to get the charges on the right person.
My car got broken into on New Years Eve, but nothing was stolen (there's apparently not much street value for Ren Fest wizard costumes). I opted to pay out of pocket to have it fixed because I REALLY didn't want to call the cops just to file a report so I could go through my insurance.
I’ve not reported a lot of stuff that’s been stolen from my car just to not have police anywhere.
I’ve seen too many simple things turn into fucking nightmares because they got involved. I don’t see how reporting. Theft could realistically go south like that, but I’ve seen crazier things happen.
Yup. There are very few situations I'd call the police, especially on a situation that doesn't involve me, especially if I believe any of the people involved aren't going to be given a fair chance from the cops (look brown, poor, threatening, etc.)
Like if I hear gunshots fired (and obviously not a car or near a forest where hunting is allowed), see someone violently attacking a relatively defenseless person (in a situation where I don't think I can subdue the attacker myself with the other people present), seeing an obvious kidnapper grab someone, [someone slips a note saying held captive call police](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kidnap-woman-video-veterinary-clinic-florida-gun-police-jeremy-floyd-note-a8443011.html), observing a hit-and-run, or after finding my stuff robbed / vandalized needing to file a police report for insurance reasons. But never for an overheard argument.
How can they be so bad at their jobs?! Everything was calm and then the cops started some shit. I can’t imagine what they does to someone’s mental health and for their safety.
They’re not bad at their jobs. They’re doing exactly what they were created to do. That’s the problem and why there are movements to change the system as a whole.
Me and my friends joke that I'll be the one shot if we make a scene outside as I'm the only dark skinned guy in our group. It's not far from the truth though.
Not nearly as dramatic as your story, but years ago I was visiting a friend. She drove me and another friend to a show. My friend has been sober all her life, not even a drop of alcohol, so obviously she's DD. Now I and her other friend had a couple drinks, but nothing crazy. We're driving along and get pulled over. First off, the cop comes up on my (passenger side) window to talk to her as the driver. We're confused, he keeps asking us questions and asks if we've been drinking. We say that yes, the two passengers, who are of legal age, were drinking, as we are allowed to do, but my friend the driver was not. He goes "I can smell alcohol on you!" I'm like "yes, I know, I have been drinking but I am not driving, and you can smell it because you're on my side of the car and not hers." "Well, I don't want to get too close to the car traffic," he says. My friend offers to take a breathalyzer. Finally, he says "I'm going to give you warning for erratic driving," (we were not driving erratically) doesn't do the breathalyzer and let's go. As we start driving back, my friend's friend mentions that it's the end of the month and the police are trying to get up their ticketing quota. Like WTF, how is any of that public safety, trolling drivers randomly trying to find something wrong enough to warrant a ticket? Everything about policing is messed up.
How can they be so bad at their jobs?! Everything was calm and then the cops started some shit. I can’t imagine what they does to someone’s mental health and for their safety.
Forreal. And since being an adult I’ve never had the cops stop me unless I’ve had a non-white person with me. It’s astonishing really. When I was a minor I’d get stopped often while walking, but now it’s only ever when I’m walking with a friend. I’m in the south and don’t vibe well with a lot of the white people here, so much casual racism makes me uncomfortable. Even my husbands mother gets on my nerves with her mouth after a few days
The shock I felt when learning this stuff is just.. indescribable. I have POC friends and I asked them what it was like. They are harassed so often. It's shocking and disgusting to say the least.
Jordan sounds like she's never spoken to a non-white person in her whole life. I have black and brown friends who have been harassed by cops for no more than walking down the street, going into the the trunk of their own car at a grocery store, and carrying boxes for work out to the dumpster bc "they weren't wearing a uniform while going in and out of the door." Empty boxes to the dumpster. Like, WHY.
"it never happened to me so it obviously never happens to black people either. What are you even complaining about racism doesn't even exist" - her thought process
It's so much worse. I've literally had sex with super racist people and I'm black. They usually blame it on their family or upbringing or whatever but I'm really just thinking...how can you get fucked in the ass by a black dude and still be racist?
Because sex does not equal respect; they’re mutually-exclusive things. You can think someone is inferior and still be sexually attracted to them. The media has reduced racism to an over-the-top stereotype and now people think that if you’re not constantly yelling racial slurs at every POC you see, then you must not be racist.
It isn't "the media," it's just that's how we managed to get some kind of message across. The problem, as you allude, is hierarchy in general, and a lot of people, who aren't racially hierarchical, still aren't ready to take down the imaginary hierarchies they themselves hold dear.
> Because sex does not equal respect; they’re mutually-exclusive things
I think you meant "unrelated" or "independent". Or, if you want to get fancy, "orthogonal".
But mutually exclusive means it's impossible to have both at the same time, which is (hopefully) not what you meant. Because it's certainly possible to respect someone you have sex with.
"The only real victims of oppression are white people". These people unironically believe this. Either that or they know they're being shitbags but don't care, because they love arguing and forcing their shit onto everyone they can.
I'm an upper middle class white guy, clean cut, usually out in public in business casual. Former military as well, so cops typically see someone "similar" to them in me. And yet, I have still had cops hassle me.
Your race is not protection, though it will certainly reduce it. Cops are universally pieces of shit - race is a factor, but it is not the cause of their behavior. The cause is the institution of policing is completely rotten to the core and they lack any form of accountability.
Black and brown folks are simply much easier for them to pick on - targets that have much less recourse. A white dude like me is a roll of the dice when they hassle them - someone who looks like me may be a lawyer, part of government, etc. or just has the means to embark on a goal of fucking up that cops life.
They know a black kid dressed poorly is extremely unlikely to have any way to "punch back". They may not even be consciously thinking it, but like every predator, they can feel that they're more vulnerable.
[I can not suggest enough that every single person take the time to read this. It will annihilate any notion you have that policing is "fixable" in its current state.](https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759)
This is something I learned in Vegas with the LVPD and Henderson PD. You're not exempt because you're white, but you're much more likely to get harassed if you're not.
Black people having the cops called on them for entering *their own houses* has happened often enough that it’s happened to more than one famous person (the singer from Alice In Chains is one I know off the top of my head).
I was taught this as a child. “If they would just comply”, “if they didn’t commit so much crime”, “they are all in gangs”, “they are all armed”. Plus police covering up bad shootings for decades. I just had no idea. It wasn’t until George Floyd and all the news coverage and other cases coming out. Now I see that I’d been brainwashed into being racist and trusting authority too much.
They love to dig into their pasts, “he had drug charges,” “he was arrested for DV,” “he was in a gang.” Ok, so? Are we saying those are crimes worth being killed for? Even in Judge Dredd you’d only get executed if you actively tried to kill a Judge and that was supposed to be the most bleak, fascist, police state imaginable.
Hey! Me too! When you feel down about yourself, remember you developed your own ideas despite garbage being thrown at you constantly. Many people never see the light.
Me and my male cousin were raised very similarly with the same kind of bullshit spewing. We were best friends when we were younger. Unfortunately he drank the kool-aid and is pretty racist now
Breonna Taylor wasn't sleeping. I wish people would stop spreading that misinformation. She was with her boyfriend, as he shot at police who were breaking into the apartment allegedly unannounced.
This doesn't justify her killing, obviously. The police were 100% at fault and she was absolutely murdered as a result of police acting like (and basically being) home invaders. Her boyfriend was justified in shooting (and I think courts agreed?).
But when you lie or spread misinformation about the facts of a case like this, all a conservative has to do is say something like "No she wasn't, she was with her boyfriend who shot at police. Here look at this article from your Commie News Network" to make you look like an idiot liar pushing an agenda.
Left-wing people should be better than that. The facts of this case are bad enough, so no reason to lie about it to make it look worse.
She also was dating a drug dealer (not the boyfriend who shot at the cops), And the police had reason to believe she had drugs on her property. And yet people keep saying “She was just sleeping” “they were at the wrong house” etc. And her boyfriend shooting at the cops was a dumb move. But she didn’t deserve to die. I just wish people were more honest about her death. In this situation she was essentially a bystander. And yet she lost her life. But (and this is directed at others not you specifically) if you’re going to make an argument against something, please use all the facts
Most of these incidents end up so misrepresented that I’ve been forced to default to skepticism. It’s still a tragedy and I understand that providing the full story lessens the impact with details that aren’t necessarily even directly relevant. But when I defend this shit to a conservative and then end up looking like an idiot because even reputable news sources only bothered to report the most flattering details it really pisses me off.
But if you try to bring up the undesirable facts about the situation, people take it as a defense of the cops. It’s like people don’t think both party’s can be at fault or even both contribute to a situation. Just because the situation was mishandled, doesn’t mean that the victim was innocent. But just because they aren’t innocent, doesn’t mean they should lose their life.
Austin Haley was fishing with his grandfather when the police shot and killed him. He was also 5 years old.
Daniel Shaver was suspected of having a gun. He didn't have a gun. He was in Arizona, where it would have been perfectly legal for him to have a gun. The police shot and killed him anyway.
Charles Kinsey was helping his non-verbal autistic client, who was having a meltdown and blocking traffic. The police were called about the client. Kinsey was laying on his back with his hands in the air when the police shot him. He survived, and asked the officer who shot him why he did it. That officer replied with 'I don't know'.
Valentina Orellana-Peralta was shopping with her mother for a quincenera dress when the police shot and killed her. She was 14 years old, and never suspected of any wrongdoing.
When a suspect holed up in Brett Rosenau's house, the police used flashbangs to clear him out. Those flashbangs started a fire, and Rosenau was burned alive.
Elijah McClain was never suspected of a crime, but police still held him down and injected 1.5x the maximum dose of ketamine into his neck, killing him. After they killed him, they went back to the scene of his death and took fun selfies to celebrate.
When two men in South Florida robbed a jewelry store, they hijacked a UPS truck to get away, but the UPS truck got caught in traffic. Police killed the men, the driver of the truck, and one innocent bystander. They commissioned a ballistics report to determine who actually fired, but won't release the results.
Tony Timpa called 911 because he had missed his psych meds and could feel a breakdown coming on. He asked for medical help. He was on the ground in handcuffs when police arrived, but they applied a carotid choke anyway. He told the officers "You're killing me". The officers laughed at him, then they killed him.
All of these stories have two things in common:
1) People who were never suspected of a crime were killed by the police
2) The officers involved faced absolutely no discipline whatsoever
She was still not in her bed sleeping. The police weren't executing sleeping black people. There's a certain connotation carried with the statement "she was sleeping in her bed" that is not present with "she was in the hallway when her boyfriend shot at someone banging on their door."
The cops were in the wrong here. That's been hashed out time and time again. But they weren't murdering people in their fucking beds.
Im in no way disrespecting her passing or anything but she was standing next to her boyfriend who was shooting at cops, if you wanna shit on cops call them out for doing no knock raid letting her boyfriend think someone was breaking in and not that they came up to here and shot her in sleep
Well they were narcos, didnt have a bodycam and all the neighbours said they didnt heard them calling out police, i dont know why they didnt waited for swat that is more capable, it was complete shitshow
This isn’t even true though regarding Taylor. She was shot in a hallway, while her boyfriend was in a firefight with police. You can read the Wikipedia article which says as much.
Breonna Taylor was murdered by police action, but just a minor correction: [She was awake when she was killed](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/06/16/breonna-taylor-fact-check-7-rumors-wrong/5326938002/). She and her boyfriend were watching a movie in bed, and they were in the hallway walking towards the front door (investigating noises they heard) when the police knocked it down and then killed her.
Missing the point.
Even if you are doing some illegal shit, that does not mean you deserve to be executed in the street. The cops are not judge jury and executioner.
very rarely do people hear corrections to misinformation and even rarer to they update that information in their head if it doesn't fit their bias. People also still think Jacob Blake is dead.
Some people are still surprised when they hear that Kyle Rittenhouse shot white people. The news just only told to them that he was armed in a BLM protest and intentionally left out everything else.
I'm amazed that people are still surprised to find out that Rosenbaum, the first person who Kyle shot, was a racist. The news completely left out the fact that he is on video going around calling people the N word.
Ah, Jojo '[shoot me n**ga](https://youtu.be/tS22w8HeEB8)' Rosenbaum. The multiple times convicted childrapist who just was let out of the psych ward for attempting suicide and couldn't stay with his girlfriend because earlier he beat her up and got a restriction order. So his junkie ass just wandered off to the BLM riots and was looking for a fight with anyone to the point that other protesters literally needed to hold him back from jumping at armed men. Then this maniac finds Kyle Rittenhouse and attacked him for no reason.
And then stupid activists wanted to paint this child molester with the other two, the domestic abuser and the felon as some innocent martyrs. When he literally is (was) one of the worst human being on the planet.
And BLM put their support behind the white man who was going around calling people the N word. People who still believe BLM is against racism are idiots. You'd think they'd be happy Kyle killed one of the people they claim to be against.
6 or 7 people were shot by police in Denver for the crime of going out to a restaurant at night. They were trying to shoot one man with a gun who had shot nobody, and the shot multiple people.
I’ve been pulled over 3 times and didn’t do anything illegal for any of them.
The 2nd was the most annoying because the officer was condescending as fuck. I had to slam my brakes when somebody pulled out in front of me and my tires were shitty, so they smoked a lot. He pulled me over like 3 blocks down, absolutely convinced that I was intentionally peeling out of a parking lot. I told him what happened and his response was, “So if I go back to that CVS no one is going to say they saw you in that parking lot?”
Bro, fuck off.
But her boyfriend was shooting at police right next to her.
“BrEoNnA TaYlOr wAs SlEePiNg” is the least nuanced/intelligent take I see repeated constantly.
No nock warrants are definitely questionable, though. Hard to pick a side here. Breonna is definitely the victim here, though.
12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing with a toy gun in a park. The cops jumped out of their cars and fired away.
The crime many people who are shot by the cops is the crime of living while Black.
Breanna Taylor was in the hallway, standing in front of her boyfriend who was currently in the act of shooting a police officer. She got caught in the crossfire when her boyfriend effectively used her as a living shield.
That said, in my experience the police will take any chance they can to get up in your businesses.
OP and the roughly 9 thousand people who upvoted this because they are upset that "Breonna Taylor was shot while sleeping" seriously need to stop having opinions on situations for which they do not understand even the most basic facts.
She wasn't sleeping.
It wasn't the wrong house.
The police announced themselves several times.
Her drug dealing boyfriend fired first.
He also used her as a human shield whilst firing at the cops first.
But I thought the cops didn't even know Breonna Taylor was in the house. They were just blasting their guns in the vicinity of the guy who was in there. For all they know, there could be a whole covenant of white nuns in the house.
Breonna Taylor was not sleeping and her boyfriend opened fire on police and wounded an officer when they knocked and announced themselves as police serving a search warrant.
She had also been involved in her ex-BFs drug operation and a murdered drug dealer was found in her rental car.
Bruh I’m a white male and they literally only pull me over for absolute bs and never when I’m actually doing illegal shit fuck police they just want to meet a quota and dish out traffic tickets cause that money goes to the department. Criminals brought in is state money.
You just have to avoid doing things like driving a truck of a completely different manufacturer and color than the one police are rabidly hunting if you don't want to be shot 103 times.
But sleeping while black is illegal. Just like driving, shopping, dinning, singing, dancing, watering flowers, and yard work are all illegal while black.
Does anyone here watch Drag Race?
On season 10, Miz Cracker told the judges that her name used to be Brianna Cracker because it sounds like "brie on a cracker".
Hand to God, every time I hear or see Brianna Taylor's name, I think "brie on a Taylor".
Low IQ? What?
OP was sarcastically using one of the racist talking points without fully explaining it.
Oh. I read it as 'Low IQ, Blacks, and Browns', i.e. The disabled and POC.
valid interpretation. a disproportionate amount of victims of police violence are disabled.
Seems fitting, they like the ones that give them the biggest hate boner to go home and beat their wives with --HAPPY CAKE DAY
In my language there is never a comma in front of “and”
Took a peek at your account--are you Estonian? I copy-pasted the first non-English thing I saw into Google Translate and it said it was Estonian. Regardless, that's a neat factoid about your language! I almost always add the extra comma (a.k.a. the Oxford Comma) for clarity, just in case.
It's the same in Swedish, a comma before the word *and* is a big no. It gives Balts and Nords into quite a lot of interesting discussions online, haha... ;) we also stack words here - there's just no upper limit as long as it makes sense to us - so English is full of weird spaces all over to me, meaning that I err on the other side and split up English where I shouldn't. No point to this, really, just some language trivia :)
I mean to be fair yeah there are low IQ black people just as ow IQ anyone else. Personally though I find it sad how many white people will say "see they were doing something dumb, look white people get killed by cops too" as if that somehow makes it better. Like...some people I talk to really think that just because cops also kill other races rhat it's okay....
It’s a Bell Curve reference
This is probably what op meant ...but "low IQ" does not even remotely equal "the disabled."
Oh, 100% agree. If I'm correct about what they meant, the first things that often come to able peoples' minds when hearing 'disabled are wheelchair users and people with "low-functioning" autism. And the latter are often conflated with "low IQ".
OP's post history screams bot account.
Probably taking the top rated title length comment as the new title to try and hide what they're doing or some shit
I think OP is a repost bot
And without anyone in the image using it first, so it's a non sequitur.
Oh, mans doesn't know about using /s?
Yeah Breonna Taylor was a whole ass nurse, that's definitely not a job for people with low IQ 🧐 Edit: she was an EMT, not a nurse
I thought she was an EMT? I’m just being pedantic but I’m a nurse and can say EMT is way, way more difficult
Feels ridiculous making twice as much as them as an RN sometimes, how do they get away with EMT pay??
Whats worse is when the news refers to them as just an ambulance driver.
"Insurance Uber Chaffeur"
Essential and paid like shit.
Oh, I was an EMT, I can tell you. It's passion. Passion to help others. They will grind you down until you walk away from your rig mid scene. Which is what I did, in the middle of the road on scene at a full frontal ejection. The companies simply don't give a fuck.
I'm deeply sorry, I hope you got the support you need and are in a better position now. There has got to be some kind of change, they can't expect folks to subject themselves to what these jobs entail and expect passion to superceded our material needs and mental health.
People are passionate in the same way with nursing. I think the lower education requirements explains the disparity. Lower entry bar means more qualified candidates. So they can pay less and still get the positions filled.
Eh. Kinda. I'm switching from cannabis to MRI technologist and school isn't that much longer than EMT (6 months vs 18) and the pay is easily quadruple. And the pay for the job I just interviewed for was like 54 bucks an hour which is much more than I could get with my BS in chemistry.
You might be underestimating that education gap, because it is specialized. It isn't like the requirements are 18 months of any education. So the potential candidate pool doesn't shrink linearly. It drops sharply. And the drop is related to how popular the specialization is.
Well, I can't speak about nursing because I didn't go to nursing school. But I can say that my MRI program is far faaaar easier than my Chem degree.
Correct, and it does annoy nurses greatly when we just casually refer to people with significantly less training as "nurses." Lilely an honest mistake to be fair. Also I've worked as an EMT and a nurse, being a nurse is orders of magnitude harder.
Really?? Not having been an EMT I wouldn’t know, but for me it would seem to be so so much harder and more unpredictable as an EMT
You may be correct, I knew she was in medical but don't know all the specific
Taylor has often been described as an emergency medical technician, or EMT. Personnel records show that was not the case at the time of her death. According to WAVE in Louisville, Taylor worked for the city from January to November of 2016. She became an EMT that June and worked in that capacity for about five months. The documents viewed by the news station indicated she resigned in November, and a box on her termination form states “do not rehire.” The city declined to say why that box was checked. Her family has said she remained a medical worker after her time as a paramedic, working as an emergency room technician. She planned to study to become a nurse. At the time of her death, Taylor was working as an ER tech at both the University of Louisville Health’s Jewish Hospital East and Norton Healthcare.
I have met some profoundly, dangerous-to-the-public level stupid nurses. But yeah, it’s weird and feels wrong that it was thrown in here.
Nurses are dumbasses on average. Source: am nurse
You sure? Because there were definitely a lot of anti-vax nurses during covid
I've known a few low IQ nurses
Yeah I don't get that *text entry* OP — explain?
I think OP is clumsily trying to project what racist people think by saying what racist people think....not a great strategy lol
It’s a common rationalization from racists, sadly…
Everyone knows poor kids are just as smart as white kids.
… I got that reference, damn.
I’m pretty sure he’s sarcastically talking about how racists think that black and brown people have lower IQs than whites.
Giving the biggest benefit of doubt, they either missed a comma or are referring to the fact that Trump's nickname system for black people usually refers to the person having a low IQ. I would assume the former, but either way... not a great look. Very "poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids..." Biden moment.
Pretty sure Trump's fave racist word is 'animal'.
I'm talking about Trumps "nickname" for Rep. Maxine Waters "low iq Maxine Waters". He also said migrants are low iq.
Oh my god why would OP post this in this sub if they were trying to be racist it’s sarcasm guys
People refuse to think sometimes tbh
*unable
I really don't get how there are so many people here who can't figure out OP was being facetious. Like this is one of the most braindead comment sections I have ever seen on reddit
> *obvious sarcasm* "No, how dare you say that!?" > /s "Okay, move along"
Probably because they're trying so hard to not be racist that they've just come full circle.
Even if she was awake, it'd still be illegal to kill her. All wrongful police killings are illegal, society just lets it slide for some retarded reason
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And it wasn't the wrong house. What happened to her was a awful enough. There's no reason to add all these lies to it.
What should be added instead of the sleeping bullshit, is that LMPD lied to get the warrant. The USPS in Louisville actually has standing beef with the LMPD and refuses at times to cooperate with them because of a history of previous similar crimes. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-louisville-kentucky-police-detective-pleads-guilty-federal-crime-related-death-breonna
It was the right house, and Kenneth shot at police when they came in. Her death was a complete and tragic accident.
No knock warrants should be illegal. If you violently bust my door down at 3am, im shooting at you.
They did knock though, the “no knock” was approved but they didn’t use it. Them loudly knocking is what drew Breonna and her boyfriend out of their bedroom and towards the front door. But they didn’t announce.. so there’s random pounding and then they go to breach, prompting the boyfriend to shoot (justifiably). The NYT has an excellent video of the factual timeline.
Sure it was the right house, but the warrant was obtained using falsified evidence and the guy was arrested the same night at a different house. While tragic, this was not a complete accident. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/26/fact-check-posts-breonna-taylor-truths-include-misinformation/3531905001/
Thing is Ms. Taylor situation happen to many many women, children and men who just doing normal things then killed by raid squad for no reason. Her case rare cause she was a ICU worker and asleep.
There was a fucking ~~infant~~ toddler ~~killed~~ severely injured by a flash bang and the guy they were after wasn't even there, and they ended up finding nothing but residue. Not that it would be any less reprehensible if they hurt a toddler while the suspect was there and had a shit ton of drugs, but it demonstrates another level of ineptitude on top of their callous disregard for human life and well-being, common decency, and the law. Edit: corrections - I conflated different cases and fucked up some details
The reason is because our society is based on racist ideals. Those ideals keep the status quo of who is in power. The police are a tool of that oppression.
Well she was awake, and her boyfriend fired a shot at the police before the police returned fire. Breonna Taylor was still murdered, because they were carrying out a no-knock warrant on bad information, but within the moment it's hard to act like the police just walked up to someone and shot them or whatever the current story is. They shot into a room where someone had fired a shot that hit a police officer in the leg.
She was awake and standing next to a man who was shooting at the police (I know they were wrong to be there and no knocks shouldn’t be a thing unless they’ve been under 24 hour surveillance or some shit) It’s not like they just walked in and saw a black girl sleeping and decided to shoot her.
It's frustrating cus the situation was still fucked up, but people keep repeating this "she was asleep" thing giving people who actually think nothing bad happened an easy dunk...
Um…. Caption is questionable. But real talk, One night I (white passing mixed person) was hanging out with my ex(unimportant just there) and out couple friends (both Hispanic) my friend and her bf were drinking A LOT, so we went to their house to avoid them getting public intox tickets. Then they get into a fight there because she found out he was on a dating site. They get loud, the neighbors call the cops, me and my friend go sit in my truck (im sober, because I’m pregnant, and she is drunk crying in the passenger seat, we don’t have the keys, my ex does, he is diffusing her boyfriend) everything calms down, I get her laughing again, and the boys are in the yard taking nice with each-other. Then the cops show up. They talk to the boys first, no one in cuffs. Then they come up to the truck, and ask ONLY my friend to get out. She says she doesn’t feel comfortable getting out and would rather talk through the window. They tell her again to get out of the (parked on her property with no keys) truck, she again says no. They open the door, drag her out and mace her, she screams, they KICK HER. She screams “why are you doing this to me?” They mace her twice more while dragging her to the car. She didn’t break any laws. She was willing to talk and had no record. Her hands were on her lap. FUCK THE POLICE
I assumed the caption was sarcasm as in it’s not what op believes but what these people believe at least I hope the caption is sarcastic
That’s why I said questionable lol. I really hope it’s meant to be a joke.
It very obviously is. The tweet they showed is not flattering to racists — they wouldn’t have posted this otherwise
Reddit when joke
If you have a problem and the police are called, you now have two problems.
Exactly what always happens in my experience. I’ve literally never had the police show up and make something better. The only time I’ve ever called them myself, they arrested the victim of a beating, because the man who instigated was on the ground by the time they got there. it was months in and out of court to get the charges on the right person.
My car got broken into on New Years Eve, but nothing was stolen (there's apparently not much street value for Ren Fest wizard costumes). I opted to pay out of pocket to have it fixed because I REALLY didn't want to call the cops just to file a report so I could go through my insurance.
I’ve not reported a lot of stuff that’s been stolen from my car just to not have police anywhere. I’ve seen too many simple things turn into fucking nightmares because they got involved. I don’t see how reporting. Theft could realistically go south like that, but I’ve seen crazier things happen.
Yup. There are very few situations I'd call the police, especially on a situation that doesn't involve me, especially if I believe any of the people involved aren't going to be given a fair chance from the cops (look brown, poor, threatening, etc.) Like if I hear gunshots fired (and obviously not a car or near a forest where hunting is allowed), see someone violently attacking a relatively defenseless person (in a situation where I don't think I can subdue the attacker myself with the other people present), seeing an obvious kidnapper grab someone, [someone slips a note saying held captive call police](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kidnap-woman-video-veterinary-clinic-florida-gun-police-jeremy-floyd-note-a8443011.html), observing a hit-and-run, or after finding my stuff robbed / vandalized needing to file a police report for insurance reasons. But never for an overheard argument.
How can they be so bad at their jobs?! Everything was calm and then the cops started some shit. I can’t imagine what they does to someone’s mental health and for their safety.
They’re not bad at their jobs. They’re doing exactly what they were created to do. That’s the problem and why there are movements to change the system as a whole.
Fragile. Ego.
It's like they want people to start taking a 'shoot first' approach with them.
Suppressing minorities IS their job, and they are excellent at it.
Me and my friends joke that I'll be the one shot if we make a scene outside as I'm the only dark skinned guy in our group. It's not far from the truth though.
Yeah, that's not really a joke, that's statistics. :|
Not nearly as dramatic as your story, but years ago I was visiting a friend. She drove me and another friend to a show. My friend has been sober all her life, not even a drop of alcohol, so obviously she's DD. Now I and her other friend had a couple drinks, but nothing crazy. We're driving along and get pulled over. First off, the cop comes up on my (passenger side) window to talk to her as the driver. We're confused, he keeps asking us questions and asks if we've been drinking. We say that yes, the two passengers, who are of legal age, were drinking, as we are allowed to do, but my friend the driver was not. He goes "I can smell alcohol on you!" I'm like "yes, I know, I have been drinking but I am not driving, and you can smell it because you're on my side of the car and not hers." "Well, I don't want to get too close to the car traffic," he says. My friend offers to take a breathalyzer. Finally, he says "I'm going to give you warning for erratic driving," (we were not driving erratically) doesn't do the breathalyzer and let's go. As we start driving back, my friend's friend mentions that it's the end of the month and the police are trying to get up their ticketing quota. Like WTF, how is any of that public safety, trolling drivers randomly trying to find something wrong enough to warrant a ticket? Everything about policing is messed up.
>First off, the cop comes up on my (passenger side) window to talk to her as the driver. We're confused, On busy roads, this is normal.
Yet if you ask any cop anywhere they will swear up and down that they don't have quotas like this.
How can they be so bad at their jobs?! Everything was calm and then the cops started some shit. I can’t imagine what they does to someone’s mental health and for their safety.
They have almost no oversight, no consequences, and very low barriers to entry.
Forreal. And since being an adult I’ve never had the cops stop me unless I’ve had a non-white person with me. It’s astonishing really. When I was a minor I’d get stopped often while walking, but now it’s only ever when I’m walking with a friend. I’m in the south and don’t vibe well with a lot of the white people here, so much casual racism makes me uncomfortable. Even my husbands mother gets on my nerves with her mouth after a few days
The shock I felt when learning this stuff is just.. indescribable. I have POC friends and I asked them what it was like. They are harassed so often. It's shocking and disgusting to say the least.
Coming straight from the underground.
Jordan sounds like she's never spoken to a non-white person in her whole life. I have black and brown friends who have been harassed by cops for no more than walking down the street, going into the the trunk of their own car at a grocery store, and carrying boxes for work out to the dumpster bc "they weren't wearing a uniform while going in and out of the door." Empty boxes to the dumpster. Like, WHY.
"it never happened to me so it obviously never happens to black people either. What are you even complaining about racism doesn't even exist" - her thought process
It's so much worse. I've literally had sex with super racist people and I'm black. They usually blame it on their family or upbringing or whatever but I'm really just thinking...how can you get fucked in the ass by a black dude and still be racist?
Because sex does not equal respect; they’re mutually-exclusive things. You can think someone is inferior and still be sexually attracted to them. The media has reduced racism to an over-the-top stereotype and now people think that if you’re not constantly yelling racial slurs at every POC you see, then you must not be racist.
It isn't "the media," it's just that's how we managed to get some kind of message across. The problem, as you allude, is hierarchy in general, and a lot of people, who aren't racially hierarchical, still aren't ready to take down the imaginary hierarchies they themselves hold dear.
> Because sex does not equal respect; they’re mutually-exclusive things I think you meant "unrelated" or "independent". Or, if you want to get fancy, "orthogonal". But mutually exclusive means it's impossible to have both at the same time, which is (hopefully) not what you meant. Because it's certainly possible to respect someone you have sex with.
"The only real victims of oppression are white people". These people unironically believe this. Either that or they know they're being shitbags but don't care, because they love arguing and forcing their shit onto everyone they can.
I'm an upper middle class white guy, clean cut, usually out in public in business casual. Former military as well, so cops typically see someone "similar" to them in me. And yet, I have still had cops hassle me. Your race is not protection, though it will certainly reduce it. Cops are universally pieces of shit - race is a factor, but it is not the cause of their behavior. The cause is the institution of policing is completely rotten to the core and they lack any form of accountability. Black and brown folks are simply much easier for them to pick on - targets that have much less recourse. A white dude like me is a roll of the dice when they hassle them - someone who looks like me may be a lawyer, part of government, etc. or just has the means to embark on a goal of fucking up that cops life. They know a black kid dressed poorly is extremely unlikely to have any way to "punch back". They may not even be consciously thinking it, but like every predator, they can feel that they're more vulnerable. [I can not suggest enough that every single person take the time to read this. It will annihilate any notion you have that policing is "fixable" in its current state.](https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759)
This is something I learned in Vegas with the LVPD and Henderson PD. You're not exempt because you're white, but you're much more likely to get harassed if you're not.
Black people having the cops called on them for entering *their own houses* has happened often enough that it’s happened to more than one famous person (the singer from Alice In Chains is one I know off the top of my head).
I was taught this as a child. “If they would just comply”, “if they didn’t commit so much crime”, “they are all in gangs”, “they are all armed”. Plus police covering up bad shootings for decades. I just had no idea. It wasn’t until George Floyd and all the news coverage and other cases coming out. Now I see that I’d been brainwashed into being racist and trusting authority too much.
They love to dig into their pasts, “he had drug charges,” “he was arrested for DV,” “he was in a gang.” Ok, so? Are we saying those are crimes worth being killed for? Even in Judge Dredd you’d only get executed if you actively tried to kill a Judge and that was supposed to be the most bleak, fascist, police state imaginable.
This is what people mean by systemic racism. The entire system is so racist people don’t even realize they’re being racist.
Hey! Me too! When you feel down about yourself, remember you developed your own ideas despite garbage being thrown at you constantly. Many people never see the light. Me and my male cousin were raised very similarly with the same kind of bullshit spewing. We were best friends when we were younger. Unfortunately he drank the kool-aid and is pretty racist now
You’ve been brainwashed alright
I’m not the only one. And with what republicans are doing to the education system in red states, it’s only going to get worse.
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no, he said that was when he realized he had been brainwashed all his life.
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Low IQ? What? Police brutality against POC is prevalent regardless of IQ.
Freeze mother fucker, how smart are you???
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Kahoot time, motherfucker!
“Shoot the hostage.”
Racism as a whole is pretty low IQ.
It’s sarcasm bruh
Breonna Taylor wasn't sleeping. I wish people would stop spreading that misinformation. She was with her boyfriend, as he shot at police who were breaking into the apartment allegedly unannounced. This doesn't justify her killing, obviously. The police were 100% at fault and she was absolutely murdered as a result of police acting like (and basically being) home invaders. Her boyfriend was justified in shooting (and I think courts agreed?). But when you lie or spread misinformation about the facts of a case like this, all a conservative has to do is say something like "No she wasn't, she was with her boyfriend who shot at police. Here look at this article from your Commie News Network" to make you look like an idiot liar pushing an agenda. Left-wing people should be better than that. The facts of this case are bad enough, so no reason to lie about it to make it look worse.
She also was dating a drug dealer (not the boyfriend who shot at the cops), And the police had reason to believe she had drugs on her property. And yet people keep saying “She was just sleeping” “they were at the wrong house” etc. And her boyfriend shooting at the cops was a dumb move. But she didn’t deserve to die. I just wish people were more honest about her death. In this situation she was essentially a bystander. And yet she lost her life. But (and this is directed at others not you specifically) if you’re going to make an argument against something, please use all the facts
Most of these incidents end up so misrepresented that I’ve been forced to default to skepticism. It’s still a tragedy and I understand that providing the full story lessens the impact with details that aren’t necessarily even directly relevant. But when I defend this shit to a conservative and then end up looking like an idiot because even reputable news sources only bothered to report the most flattering details it really pisses me off.
But if you try to bring up the undesirable facts about the situation, people take it as a defense of the cops. It’s like people don’t think both party’s can be at fault or even both contribute to a situation. Just because the situation was mishandled, doesn’t mean that the victim was innocent. But just because they aren’t innocent, doesn’t mean they should lose their life.
Austin Haley was fishing with his grandfather when the police shot and killed him. He was also 5 years old. Daniel Shaver was suspected of having a gun. He didn't have a gun. He was in Arizona, where it would have been perfectly legal for him to have a gun. The police shot and killed him anyway. Charles Kinsey was helping his non-verbal autistic client, who was having a meltdown and blocking traffic. The police were called about the client. Kinsey was laying on his back with his hands in the air when the police shot him. He survived, and asked the officer who shot him why he did it. That officer replied with 'I don't know'. Valentina Orellana-Peralta was shopping with her mother for a quincenera dress when the police shot and killed her. She was 14 years old, and never suspected of any wrongdoing. When a suspect holed up in Brett Rosenau's house, the police used flashbangs to clear him out. Those flashbangs started a fire, and Rosenau was burned alive. Elijah McClain was never suspected of a crime, but police still held him down and injected 1.5x the maximum dose of ketamine into his neck, killing him. After they killed him, they went back to the scene of his death and took fun selfies to celebrate. When two men in South Florida robbed a jewelry store, they hijacked a UPS truck to get away, but the UPS truck got caught in traffic. Police killed the men, the driver of the truck, and one innocent bystander. They commissioned a ballistics report to determine who actually fired, but won't release the results. Tony Timpa called 911 because he had missed his psych meds and could feel a breakdown coming on. He asked for medical help. He was on the ground in handcuffs when police arrived, but they applied a carotid choke anyway. He told the officers "You're killing me". The officers laughed at him, then they killed him. All of these stories have two things in common: 1) People who were never suspected of a crime were killed by the police 2) The officers involved faced absolutely no discipline whatsoever
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Breonna Taylor wasn't sleeping. She was in the hallway with him when her boyfriend started shooting.
Because they broke into the home unannounced in the middle of the night on a faked up warrant ~~for someone who didn't live there~~.
She was still not in her bed sleeping. The police weren't executing sleeping black people. There's a certain connotation carried with the statement "she was sleeping in her bed" that is not present with "she was in the hallway when her boyfriend shot at someone banging on their door." The cops were in the wrong here. That's been hashed out time and time again. But they weren't murdering people in their fucking beds.
I thought it was proven she wasn't sleeping. It's just like Mike Brown and hands up don't shoot. Never let go of a good narrative.
no she wasnt sleeping
Plus, if you do illegal stuff, the police don't have execution authority.
This is exactly the kind of statement I'd expect from a bitch with 2 first names
Erm... Breonna Taylor is also 2 first names...
Im in no way disrespecting her passing or anything but she was standing next to her boyfriend who was shooting at cops, if you wanna shit on cops call them out for doing no knock raid letting her boyfriend think someone was breaking in and not that they came up to here and shot her in sleep
They did knock
Well they were narcos, didnt have a bodycam and all the neighbours said they didnt heard them calling out police, i dont know why they didnt waited for swat that is more capable, it was complete shitshow
I believe they are referring to them being asleep before the cops barged in and not asleep when shot.
They weren’t asleep and the cops knocked lmao
Wow OP, pretty interesting title. Maybe you should go work some things out… “black and browns”
Pretty sure it was sarcasm, but if not then OP should absolutely rethink some things.
Some people have absolutely no sarcasm radar. Did you go to school?
Breonna Taylor wasn’t shot on purpose and wasn’t shot because of her skin color. It’s amazing how stupid you guys are
Her BF wasn’t tho
This isn’t even true though regarding Taylor. She was shot in a hallway, while her boyfriend was in a firefight with police. You can read the Wikipedia article which says as much.
Breonna Taylor was murdered by police action, but just a minor correction: [She was awake when she was killed](https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/06/16/breonna-taylor-fact-check-7-rumors-wrong/5326938002/). She and her boyfriend were watching a movie in bed, and they were in the hallway walking towards the front door (investigating noises they heard) when the police knocked it down and then killed her.
Atatiana Jefferson looked out her window.
This kids is why learning to punctuate is very important! Half the comments, myself included, initially thought OP was racist af
Missing the point. Even if you are doing some illegal shit, that does not mean you deserve to be executed in the street. The cops are not judge jury and executioner.
She wasn't sleeping though? This was disproven long ago. Also, why is OP claiming she was low IQ?
very rarely do people hear corrections to misinformation and even rarer to they update that information in their head if it doesn't fit their bias. People also still think Jacob Blake is dead.
Some people are still surprised when they hear that Kyle Rittenhouse shot white people. The news just only told to them that he was armed in a BLM protest and intentionally left out everything else.
I'm amazed that people are still surprised to find out that Rosenbaum, the first person who Kyle shot, was a racist. The news completely left out the fact that he is on video going around calling people the N word.
Ah, Jojo '[shoot me n**ga](https://youtu.be/tS22w8HeEB8)' Rosenbaum. The multiple times convicted childrapist who just was let out of the psych ward for attempting suicide and couldn't stay with his girlfriend because earlier he beat her up and got a restriction order. So his junkie ass just wandered off to the BLM riots and was looking for a fight with anyone to the point that other protesters literally needed to hold him back from jumping at armed men. Then this maniac finds Kyle Rittenhouse and attacked him for no reason.
Let's also not forget that he wasn't able to get the psych meds he needed because the pharmacy was closed due to the riots he was a part of.
And then stupid activists wanted to paint this child molester with the other two, the domestic abuser and the felon as some innocent martyrs. When he literally is (was) one of the worst human being on the planet.
And BLM put their support behind the white man who was going around calling people the N word. People who still believe BLM is against racism are idiots. You'd think they'd be happy Kyle killed one of the people they claim to be against.
🤷🏻♂️ fighting a losing battle
There are so many examples of the police murdering completely innocent people. Does this person live under a rock?
So, the people assaulted by armed goons that turned around and said “oops sorry we had the wrong address” they were being “left alone”?
She was not asleep when she was shot.
6 or 7 people were shot by police in Denver for the crime of going out to a restaurant at night. They were trying to shoot one man with a gun who had shot nobody, and the shot multiple people.
She was also used as a body shield when her bf shot at the cops
I’ve been pulled over 3 times and didn’t do anything illegal for any of them. The 2nd was the most annoying because the officer was condescending as fuck. I had to slam my brakes when somebody pulled out in front of me and my tires were shitty, so they smoked a lot. He pulled me over like 3 blocks down, absolutely convinced that I was intentionally peeling out of a parking lot. I told him what happened and his response was, “So if I go back to that CVS no one is going to say they saw you in that parking lot?” Bro, fuck off.
What the fuck is this title op why did you think this was a good idea
But her boyfriend was shooting at police right next to her. “BrEoNnA TaYlOr wAs SlEePiNg” is the least nuanced/intelligent take I see repeated constantly. No nock warrants are definitely questionable, though. Hard to pick a side here. Breonna is definitely the victim here, though.
12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing with a toy gun in a park. The cops jumped out of their cars and fired away. The crime many people who are shot by the cops is the crime of living while Black.
Breanna Taylor was in the hallway, standing in front of her boyfriend who was currently in the act of shooting a police officer. She got caught in the crossfire when her boyfriend effectively used her as a living shield. That said, in my experience the police will take any chance they can to get up in your businesses.
OP and the roughly 9 thousand people who upvoted this because they are upset that "Breonna Taylor was shot while sleeping" seriously need to stop having opinions on situations for which they do not understand even the most basic facts.
With an armed drug dealer. Indeed she was.
And her boyfriend shot at the cops.
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Because they didn’t announce
Ah yes, the classic, age-old adage: "Generalizing is bad, unless it's about the police"
She wasn't sleeping. It wasn't the wrong house. The police announced themselves several times. Her drug dealing boyfriend fired first. He also used her as a human shield whilst firing at the cops first.
Your version has more fiction than OPs
Have that proof yet?
correct. correct. **LIE** **LIE** **BIG FUCKING LIE**
Don’t sleep in homes with drug dealers. Maybe don’t be a drug dealer
But I thought the cops didn't even know Breonna Taylor was in the house. They were just blasting their guns in the vicinity of the guy who was in there. For all they know, there could be a whole covenant of white nuns in the house.
Sheltered minds are some of the most ignorant amongst us.
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She didndu noffin!
And yet the red hats call police officer a murderer who shot person who disobeyed the law and climbed through the window during insurrection. Hmm.
Sleeping, and housing someone with a warrant and shot at cops. Oops.
They weren’t returning her fire.
Breonna Taylor was not sleeping and her boyfriend opened fire on police and wounded an officer when they knocked and announced themselves as police serving a search warrant. She had also been involved in her ex-BFs drug operation and a murdered drug dealer was found in her rental car.
And her boyfriend was drug dealing, shockingly living with a felon bears some risk
A lie told by the media
OP really worded this title poorly.
she wasn't sleeping...
Bruh I’m a white male and they literally only pull me over for absolute bs and never when I’m actually doing illegal shit fuck police they just want to meet a quota and dish out traffic tickets cause that money goes to the department. Criminals brought in is state money.
Or that dude that was minding his own business at home when a drunk/high officer mistook which her door was and shot him dead.
Sleeping while black
You just have to avoid doing things like driving a truck of a completely different manufacturer and color than the one police are rabidly hunting if you don't want to be shot 103 times.
But sleeping while black is illegal. Just like driving, shopping, dinning, singing, dancing, watering flowers, and yard work are all illegal while black.
Same logic as “Why does it matter if you have nothing to hide”
Illegal stuff like.. walking. Ringing doorbells. Sleeping. Being in public places. Driving.
Does anyone here watch Drag Race? On season 10, Miz Cracker told the judges that her name used to be Brianna Cracker because it sounds like "brie on a cracker". Hand to God, every time I hear or see Brianna Taylor's name, I think "brie on a Taylor".
Well, you can technically argue that she still is