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[In case anyone is honestly still confused about why Black Lives Matter is a thing (if anybody ever honestly was) ...]

"This morning I saw the video of the arrest of John Lee Cowelli [who had wantonly attacked two Black girls and killed one, a couple days earlier]. Police don't draw their guns. They don't slam him to the concrete and put their knees into his back while putting on his handcuffs. They don't Taser him. They don't choke him.

"You'd think they were arresting a man for writing a bad check or stealing a shirt from a department store.

"And so often after we see a horrible incident of police brutality against Black folk, we talk about how American police need more training and better training. I've said that myself, but police show us over and over and over again -- with white men who are considered armed and dangerous -- who've just brutally murdered people -- that they are fully willing and able to remain calm, and cool, and collected, and methodical -- whenever they feel like it.

"All these years we thought they needed to be trained on how to make a peaceful arrest -- and it turns out they're great at it -- even with the most vicious and violent murderers -- if they're white.

"We're not saying that the police should've beaten or choked or shot or maimed or Tasered this man, we're saying that we want unarmed, non-violent Black folk to get the same treatment American police are so willing able to give dangerous white murderers."

-- Shaun King, 2018-07-24 (that's a Facebook link, sorry -- won't work for everyone) [thanks to amaebi for linking to this]