George Floyd - America so f**ked up

The ethnic minority experience, in their interactions with the law enforcement agencies, evidence suggests differs from that of the Caucasian experience.

Anyone on here with a motive?

From the Beeb:

A statue of a Jamaican poet, playwright and actor has been covered with what appears to be a bleach-like substance. The monument to Alfred Fagon in St Pauls, Bristol, was erected in 1987 on the first anniversary of his death. Mr Fagon was the first black person to have a statue erected in their honour in the city. It was reported on Thursday to police, who said it was being investigated as criminal damage and enquiries were continuing.

Fine, give me the straw man rubbish- you’re the one trying to deflect criticism of the risk to life from the protests on to the government.

Ok let me put it another way. A black man has a bad experience it's called racism. A white man has a bad experience it isn't called racism. I presume because it's white on black and white on white. However those you treat others badly do not necessarily do it for the colour of their skin there are many reasons. Although white on black is convenient even it it's not the truth. Let me give you an example. Now close your eyes and picture being at Hillsborough in the semi final of the Cup. All Liverpool supporters are black and all Notts F fans are white. The police are white. The black Liverpool fans are being crushed against the gates and to get out are desperately climbing over the gates onto the pitch to escape for fear of losing their lives. The white police grab them and throw them back in where some of them suffocate and die. Now imagine the reaction from all the 'ethnic minority groups' and the left wing press. Racism, racism,racism. Highly likely rioting, looting and hardly a window left in Britain.
The truth is it wasn't racism and that is the honest truth.

Been busy?

Quite creative Al
Let's put it into reality, or perhaps some real life situations.
Some of the people in this scenario (a real life one) are known to me.
USA 2020
Black kid, 17, gets into his car to drive to visit his grandmother. On the way he "rolls" a stop sign. (If you don't know, stop signs are traffic calming measures in built up areas, you are supposed to come to a complete stop, he slowed to almost nothing but not a complete stop)
Spotted by the cops he is followed the short distance to grannies.
Pulled up on the driveway he gets out, at which point the cops pull up and jump out and pulled their guns. The kids lies on the floor, terrified. The scops scream at him to get up. Crying he shouts "no, you will shoot me"
Hearing the noise granny comes out, straddles the boy and tells the cops to out their guns away. They refuse, charge her knocking her over, cuff the boy and take him away. All for rolling a stop sign. Back in my day that was a $50 fine.

Meanwhile, four white lads, 16/17 are driving home after a little get together. They get stopped by the cops (I have not been told why). Suspicious the cop, quite rightly breathalyses the driver. He fails the test, he is DUI.
What does the cop do?
He calls his mother to collect them and leaves the decision on punishment to her. The cops leave the scene and take no further action.

Can anyone spot the difference?
That's a real life situation Al.

For your pleasure 365
My last attendance at a demonstration was 2018, London. I was 66.
My first attendance was the anti war demo ending at Grosvenor Sq in 1968.
I was 16.
None of that is relevant really but I am not inclined to take any form of criticism from you.

And so you shouldn’t! You obviously have a rich history of standing up for the causes you believe in and that is admirable.....just not in the middle of a pandemic whilst happy to encourage others to take those risks.

Let’s leave it there.

I get you Al. I really do.
My view is that when a official report into the Met finds them "Institutionally Racist", when still today respected institutions still deem a need to say
"We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle long-standing entrenched racial inequalities,” said David Isaac, the chairman of the EHRC. “We intend to use our statutory powers to address the loss of lives and livelihoods of people from different ethnic minorities. Only by taking focused action to tackle race inequality across Britain will we become a fair country.”
The move came as the Government Equalities Office announced a review into the government’s response to inequalities in Covid-19 infection and death rates, including the impact of age, sex, occupation, obesity, comorbidities, geography, and ethnicity."
Thus was the past week.
Most recently the Government's own report on Covid so far failed to include the section by Prof Fenton on BAME impact.
Why?

Let's leave it there.