of course the cop in this instance had a right to self defense. that doesn't let you people get away with making objectively terrible claims like "durrrr BLM wants cops to be killed" or "hurrrr systemic racism isn't a problem and blah blah blah I'm an offensive moron".
What do you mean "you people"? Racist!
You're doing your cutesy "covering my racism with poor attempts at satire" pretty badly.
Wouldn't I have to have been racist in the first place to do that? Lampooning racially divisive SJW dogma is not racist. I have only been "racist" if you believe the nonsensical idea that not doing whatever the left says is therefore support of the status quo which is a super duper evil heterosexist white supremacist patriarchy system, including the constitution, the courts and justice system, capitalism, and an individualistic view on rights. These things are undeniably compatible with a race neutral system and supporting them =/= supporting the police lynching black people.
I'm no fan of cops. Believe it or not I don't even think cops should go around murdering uncooperative but otherwise non-threatening black citizens like you seem to be insinuating. 60% of deaths caused by the cops are not black though. I'm not saying that the difference between % of the population and % of deaths for black people doesn't matter, or that race can never be a factor in some killings. But clearly more than half of police killings do not happen because the victim is black. It's really hard to take some of these anti-police violence activists seriously, when instead of focusing on the circumstances of a police killing and using the most egregious examples to win support, they instead just look at the race of victim and ignore everything else. Sometimes the person who was shot is not sympathetic. Trying to argue otherwise solely on the weight of SJW dogma ("It wasn't Trayvon Martin and Michael Browns fault they attacked people. Its the systems fault because straight white cis-males wrote laws requiring guilt beyond a reasonable doubt") is bogus.
Thank you for providing me an opportunity to rant about this. I'm becoming increasingly annoyed at how racialist some of the lefties are becoming. Apparently its a micro-aggression to tell others that race is fake (which it is) because it diminishes the important cultural identity some minorities might have related to their heritage. Meanwhile, its perfectly OK to diminish these important cultural identities by reducing them all into "peoples of colour", since Samoan fishermen, Arab housewives, Bolivian coca farmers, Seal, Marco Rubio, and North Korean military officers all totally share a for real common identity. The totally shared experience of not being one of
those people.
Those people are responsible for all of society's problems you know.
