Probably because the NFL doesn't have anything to do with a bad cop in Minneapolis doing a bad thing.
In fairness, trying to describe Floyd's killing as an isolated singular example, is like describing Emmett Till lynching as a tragic but isolated incident. They're both incidents that, at the right time and undercurrent of other social factors, focused national attention on an extremely pernicious and systemic underlying problem.
I strongly disagree. 99.99% of the time the "system" works fine and is never newsworthy. How many police interactions occur each day? If the "system" itself was oppressive we'd have dozens of abusive encounters per day. Cream of Wheat and color blindness have nothing to do with George Floyd and a bad cop who escaped discipline like a dozen times.
We do have such interactions on a constant basis, but still few are caught on camera even now. Plus, it's sadly took a situation where it was a death rather than someone merely getting roughed up yet again for people to finally say enough is enough.
The fact that Officer chauvan escaped disciplined previously is exactly the problem. Even if this is the result of a relatively few bad apples, those bad apples are assiduously protected tooth & Nail bye the union and their entire membership. It creates not only problems with individual enforcement, but with the fundamental culture of policing.
If you're going to ACTUALLY CLAIM that police abuse against racial minorities is not a fundamental and systemic problem in 2020, and "the system works 99.99% of the time", then literally no facts, statistics, or other moral appeals to your better nature are going to change your mind in the slightest. It also explains why you are so interminably more jacked up over toppled statues then you apparently are over systemic police brutality. You see the one in your nightmares, but refuse to believe the other exists other than the most anomalous exception to the rule.
I'm going to say this as nicely and politely as I can. Agree to disagree.
