>>why would you announce that you think evidence points to
>not
>>filing a criminal charge...in the middle of a fucking riot?
>>especially when the entire country just saw the video?
>>
>>the incident just happened 3 days ago fam.
>>
>>shit looks the result of the supposed ongoing investigation
>is
>>already determined.
>>
>>who is gonna have faith in that process now?
>
>Faith has been gone. Maybe hope that someday it'll get right
>is fading too.
>
>The looting is not what people should be concerned with.
>That's silly folks who aren't thinking about the right things.
>
>
>Somebody somewhere is going to hit the 'I'm fed up with this
>and I'm not going to wait for them to get me too' point and
>somebody somewhere is going to get hurt. AKA violence. And of
>course, it won't change the things that need to change.
>
>To me, we're not ready to fix this until NO ONE IS OKAY with
>what happened. Or at least the energy surrounding it is so
>strong that the news has to report it in a way that suggests
>almost no one being okay with it. I'm tired of having it
>presented like black folks carry the torch on this alone while
>everyone else can keep posting pictures of food and random
>memes online.
>
>This is an abuse of power issue.
>
>It is also a counting on people to care less because the dude
>who got killed was black issue.
>
>But it is worse than that to me. Folks don't want to hear it,
>but this is also a 'if the man who got killed was a dog, more
>people would be more mad about it' issue. The idea that black
>folks have to look around and know damn well that more people
>would be more upset about a dog getting killed on camera is a
>lot. Asking people to deal with that level of disregard AGAIN
>is asking a lot.
>
>I have people around me saying that they're straight up and
>down tired. And that's where I'm at on it too. But I'm also
>scared that something worse is about to go down. And soon.