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Old 08-28-2020, 07:28 AM
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Did you ever hear of Tony Timpa before I posted his name? Of course you didn’t. His story wasn’t on every news network 24/7 for days. There were no riots, no calls for police reform. No celebrities spoke out on his behalf. Please, the only similarity is they died the same way, the big difference was the color of their skin!
true but as I explained there was no cell phone video. and the body cam video wasn't released until over a year later and only when the news media fought to get it. it would have been a very newsworthy story that police were on video joking while a white man died. but the death was hushed up.