"This is America" Warning it is bad and will probably make you cry

[Maraya1969]

It's bad.

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[mzmolly]

1. Love DeNiro.

I tried to watch. I can't.

[Maraya1969]

2. I almost wish I didn't. But people need to see this.

[mzmolly]

8. I agree.

I'll get the courage to watch soon.

[applegrove]

12. Me too. On both counts. Too hard to watch. nt

[lunatica]

14. I had to stop too.

I’m just reduced to crying all the time now.

If this year’s horrors don’t bring change nothing will.

[Six117]

37. Same

Tears are always stinging my eyes

[In It to Win It]

38. I watched but it was difficult

[demtenjeep]

3. is this the real RD? Do you see the Parody

and the funny name underneath?

[cwydro]

6. Good point.

[Blue Owl]

4. It is past time for some fucking JUSTICE

[cayugafalls]

5. Not the real DeNiro...

[stillcool]

7. but what about the protesters, and the looters?

I'm going to be sick.

[procon]

9. Isn't this from a few years ago?

It's bad enough watching police violence play out in real time without stoking the anger quotient by opening up these old wounds to fuel the fire.

Let Trump play that game, we've got enough as it is.

[chia]

16. Some of those are from the current protests.

[yaesu]

30. wait, wait what?

it shows a long history of abuse, tRump would love to hide it pretend it never happened.

[Nevilledog]

42. You're missing the point. Those "old wounds" have never healed.

[chia]

15. Old video, no value? Really?

It may not be De Niro who posted it, but most of those videos were recent/current, and they are spirit-crushing.

[chowder66]

18. Old? It ends with George Floyd. Value? It shows numerous black people getting beaten and killed.

[OneBro]

25. Sometimes the comments I see on DU stun the absolute fuck out of me.

"old video, no value."

How recent must the killing be to add value to a discussion about police abuse? I still feel the rage from the murder of Philando Castile. Should I be over it already? What about the murder of Trayvon Martin? Not killed by a cop, so unrelated? If you or anyone else things the rage in the streets is solely about the murder of George Floyd, you are sorely mistaken.

I know I'm over-reacting because my emotions are straight twisted and I'm just on the edge of sanity; and I know I'm venting at you though you aren't the enemy because we can't always tell where the shrapnel is coming from, but I hope we can all agree that we are STILL fighting the fight we were fighting when Emmett Till and the Five Scottsboro Boys and the Groveland Boys and the many hundreds of black people who were abused and killed by police in our own country that our relatives fought and died for.

Personally, I think this video needs to run every few hours on every network. Stopped for a tail-light and nonchalantly shot in the back for foolishly attempting to flee. A death sentence for fleeing a citation for a broken taillight stop.

Each time we forget, they get more cruel and more emboldened.

One of my relatives asked why people were reacting NOW, "just" from the murder of George Floyd. After I took a moment for my irrational anger to die down, I explained to him that this isn't "just" about George Floyd. America has been feeding kindling to the rage for longer than my cousin has been alive, but the videos make it harder to simply forget. We play the scenes over and over in our minds as we try to go about our daily lives, even as we confuse the names of the various victims and places. Then one day we were watching George Floyd and Eric Garner and Philando Castile and trying to figure out who was who and when and what and why and then suddenly . . . there was a fire.

[scarletwoman]

26. Please allow me to apologize. I was going by what someone else said in this thread, I'm not able

to watch Twitter videos, so I was unable to confirm.

I will delete my post.

[OneBro]

33. No apology necessary.

I know we are on the same team with the same underlying goals. We should all be able to speak freely and make mistakes and share and learn.

Best wishes, and please be well.

[blogslut]

11. It is a powerful video

However, Mr. De Niro did not post it

[gibraltar72]

13. Fuck I'm crying again.

[California_Republic]

34. I didn't make it to the end.

That is a tough one

[pecosbob]

17. Perhaps you might place a graphic violence trigger warning?

It is pretty bad.

[chowder66]

19. Here is the original twitter post

Link to tweet

[Cha]

20. :( TY Robert De Niro

Link to tweet

[Cha]

21. Retweeted. :(

[oasis]

22. Trumpism has pushed America beyond the boiling point. nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

23. Acab

I couldn't watch it.

Fuck. Tears welling up and triggered. I hate these cops. I felt hate when I saw what they did,and hate for the fucking law n order types.magats. I hate the right wing. I hate abusers.

The girl getting beat made me feel hate and wish I could destroy that pig.

Truth there is no karma,unless we become agents of karma against abuse and systemic abuse.

[budkin]

24. Good video, but that's not Robert DeNiro

It clearly says "parody."

[Pepsidog]

27. Wow

[RoadRising]

28. Heartbreaking. Devastating.

We have to make this stop.

[Mr.Bill]

29. I remember almost every one of those

incidents from when they happened.

[barbtries]

31. that says parody

so I'm guessing it's not DeNiro. I also only got through a couple seconds.

[IronLionZion]

32. When there's this many bad apples

there's something wrong with the orchard. Reforms are needed. Every video we see, we have to ask how many times this has happened when there was no one around to film it.

[tblue37]

35. K&R for visibility. nt

[yuiyoshida]

36. Trump (and Putin) must be so happy right now

Starting a race war at home is making America great again? Well, one thing is for sure, He has destroyed single handily the Republican Party.

[mountain grammy]

39. Not the real DeNiro

but video is all too real.. All too real.

[renate]

40. I'll admit it--I was naive

Gee, I wonder if that's got anything to do with the fact that I'm middle-aged and white.

This week has changed my view. Someone I care about very much is a police officer, and I know him to be an extremely honorable, decent, and kind person with impeccable integrity and a great sense of social responsibility. That's... one person. I was letting what I knew about him color my impression of the force as a whole. I knew there were some bad cops; I had no idea that there were so many. I was naive. I was protected by the color of my skin, my gender, and my socioeconomic status. I hope I'm not alone in how much this week has opened my eyes, and I don't think I am.

[Guilded Lilly]

41. Tears. DeNiro or not, it is America.

[Moostache]

43. I am physically ill...

Where is our hope to survive this all?
Where is our FDR or Lincoln?

Where is our collective decency?

I literally taste bile in my mouth and that watery sensation that happens before I have to vomit...

This cannot continue...

[smirkymonkey]

44. I couldn't watch more than a few seconds.

It made me feel physically ill, angry and filled with despair. What a sick country we live in.

[dickthegrouch]

45. Next to almost all was an accomplice

Whether active or passive in the attacks, they were there and have no excuse for covering, and no justification for being proud of their badge.
Every one of these violent unpredictable unprovoked thugs needs jail time.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

46. I stopped with the girl getting punched.

I had also already seen all of those disturbing videos over the years, to that point.