Devastating Toon - Explaining Daddy's Death

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[dalton99a]

1. Pretty soon somebody holding a Bible will get shot

Most likely a black male

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. But if you are white, you can walk down the street with

a weapon of mass destruction and the police don't blink.

America is so FUCKED UP.

[dalton99a]

3. If said weapon explodes, it's "the outcry of a very challenged young man"

[PatSeg]

4. Seriously

White guys walk into stores and restaurants carrying AR-15s defying anyone to stop them. You'd think police would know that they are the people to be afraid of.

[malaise]

7. And this time the young man was in his own grandmother's back yard

It's institutional racism.

[PatSeg]

10. About ten years ago

I lived in South Sac and I remember a night when there was a police helicopter flying over our yards, pointing strong lights. They were looking for someone who was supposedly hiding in backyards in the neighborhood. It was very intimidating at the time, but it never dawned on me that they would shoot someone in their own backyard.

Another things that disturbs me is the man they were looking for was smashing car windows. So that justifies executing a suspect? This sort of thing has become far too common.

[malaise]

11. Yep

Their first option appears to be KILL

[Volaris]

12. That's That's because for a lot of law enforcement agencies,

The criteria for what makes you qualified is that you managed to come back from the Sandbox alive...doesn't matter that you might have PTSD the the military didn't teach you to deal with...
Soldiers DO NOT make good Cops...it's one of the reasons we have Posse Commitatus Law, as far as I'm concerned.

[malaise]

13. +1,000

and I speak with experience - one of my nephews was in Iraq. He would not make a good cop.

[gratuitous]

5. I haven't seen the counterfactual yet

Usually, there's a whole flock of folks getting in front of cameras and microphones to explain what the black guy did that was so wrong, and how if he had just done thus-and-so, the cops wouldn't have had to shoot him. To this point, I haven't seen what Mr. Clark was supposed to have done between the moment the cops (who hadn't identified themselves as cops) shouted "Gun, gun, gun!" and when the bullets started flying. Clark did apparently bleed out in the minutes afterward while the cops did something other than attend to him, so I don't know Clark can be faulted for that.

[dalton99a]

8. Black people are given only milliseconds to comply

and if anybody says "gun" - real and imagined - it's immediate execution

[Gothmog]

6. Great cartoon

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. I've seen some pretty awful commentary from the RWNJ.

I know you may find that hard to believe, but I have. OK, I know you won't, but there's a reason for it. They're fucking monsters.

[raven mad]

14. ...

😢😢 😞😞

Add yet more #NEVER AGAIN.

[antifash]

15. This is so sad, so true

We've now reached the point where a young black father can't even stand in his own grandmother's backyard without the cops swooping in from out of nowhere unannounced and just gunning him down for no reason and with no provocation. It's probably the lowest point in history for race relations between the police and POC.

[Neema]

16. A friend of mine just bought a bright pink polka dot cell phone cover so it can never be mistaken

for gun. It's insane to me that he has to think of such things.