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Originally Posted by blueash
I looked at all three of your links.
The first is of a white man with significant mental health issues who was completely out of control and died 4 days after his police encounter where he became unconscious
The second is a Filipino with mental health issues who died three days after his police encounter in his own home where a decision on charging the officer may be pending
The third is a white male with schizophrenia who died at the scene 5 years ago in Dallas Texas after being restrained. The cops stood around his unconscious body and mocked him This case is the most similar to Mr Floyd but occurred well before the increased awareness of police actions killing civilians. His case resulted in the cops being indicted by a grand jury after the coroner found "cause of death was a homicide, sudden cardiac death due to "the toxic effects of cocaine and the stress associated with physical restraint." but the coroner refused to testify in court that the cause of death was the cop and the case was dropped. I wonder what pressure was applied to get the coroner to refuse to testify. I don't think the result would be the same in 2021, hopefully
The common thread in these three cases is severe mental health issues and that cops really don't have the skills to deal with those problems. That is exactly why there is now a movement to have mental health professionals much more involved in such situations.
The MSM does report these cases, as evidenced by your finding all the reports. Those organizations which represent the interest of those with mental illness have been very clear in decrying the brutality in which those with mental illnesses are treated by police. Those organizations which represent the interest of Black Americans have been very loud in decrying the brutality in which POC are treated by police. Nobody is spewing anything other than your spewing of an implication that only the murder of Blacks is reported because of a media agenda. Many more Blacks have died at the hands of police than those cases that get more attention, and those are only some of the cases where a colorblind observer can tell that the cops got it wrong.
In 2019 did you hear about "28-year-old Michael Dean, who police killed in Texas on Dec. 2; 31-year-old Christopher Whitfield, who police killed in Louisiana on Oct. 14; 54-year-old Melvin Watkins, who police killed in Louisiana on Sept. 14; and 33-year-old Channara Tom Pheap, who police killed on Aug. 26 in Tennessee." Hardly a blip on the news about those cases, but look them up if you'd like. And there are more. |
If you do the research and look at the makeup of those who commit violent crimes, you will see that whites are killed at a higher percentage than blacks by police.
Tony Timpa’s case was almost identical to Floyd’s, yet it only received local media coverage. You never even heard of Tony Timpa before today. If George Floyd was white, you would never have heard of him either...