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Biden calls for justice after footage released of police killing Black woman
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
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This is a strangely telling detail for you to have included. You cannot see Sonya Massey's face or movements in the moments leading up to the shots being fired -- Her entire body is obfuscated behind both the kitchen counter and Sean Grayson's body as he steps between Massey and his partner.
She looks angry to you because you're racist.
You cannot see what expression she has in that picture.
Did you not watch the video!?
Her behaviour. Her literal threats..
Her behavior!? She put her hands up and dropped to the floor pleading. The cop went from zero to a thousand in 3 seconds.
Fuck off with your dumb bullshit
All of the stuff she says .. and her reaching for the water in the footage.... The water goes flying because she had grabbed it again.
Did you not watch it?
What is all of the stuff she said? The Jesus thing that made the cop inappropriately dial to eleven and murder her? She's half thier size and can barely move.
If the water went flying, it's because he yelled he would fucking shoot her in the face and pointed his gun at her.
How stupid are you?
Considering she was on the ground, with her hands In front of her... How did the pot end up coming off the stove.. unless she reaches up to grab it when they shot.. yaknow, like you can see her doing in the footage.
So you claim the water went flying because he yelled... She wasn't touching it when he yelled.
Are you claiming it's rational to reach for and grab the pot of boiling water in that situation...because he yelled?
You're claiming justification of murder - how do you expect people to take you seriously?
I don't understand why you are being so rude.
If you watch the footage, it makes complete sense.
And most importantly, there is zero evidence that her race has anything to do with it at all.
Your lax attitude towards murder is not helping your case about whether race matters. You don't seem to value life.
I think it's a consequence of America being so gun happy.
You guys need to get rid of em. Big time.
I value human life greatly, I just know not to threaten American cops.. because.. I value human life.
Wow. Reporting. No need for that. If i make more sense than you there's no need to lash out your upset at me.
Reporting what? That I'm not a racist asshole defending a cop committing murder on camera?
Jesus christ. Your behaviour is vile.
First you want to be racist by attempting to force race into it, and then this.. actually. That makes sense.
I've looked very carefully at the screenshot you linked. Due to the resolution and compression of the video file, the dim lightning, and the very fast motion at the time of the screenshot, Sonya Massey's eyebrows, eyes, and mouth are in no way discernible. How can you arrive at the conclusion that she looks angry?
Dudes got CSI Enhance technology.
As I said straight away, You have to watch it in motion. Slo mo ideally.
A large part of that deduction is based on her behaviour, threatening to throw boiling water on innocent people at work, he verbal threat to cause harm to those people, and then her reaching quickly for the boiling water with her head tilted down like that.. combined with what we can make out of her expression in the footage in motion.
And as I said, I've also watched the video. The point of all of my comments is that your original statement:
was not based in anything that could be observed in the video, but rather on your "deduction." There are people who will never watch the video because they would find it upsetting, and I wouldn't want people like that to read your comment and think there was any ounce of truth to your claim. One simply cannot see any of what you're claiming in the footage that is available, and I personally believe that your ardent defense of these claims says a lot more about you than it does about the available facts.
You claimed it was obscured.
I immediately want and made as screenshot to show it wasnt.
I think it's obvious who wants to move on agenda here...