https://www.resetera.com/threads/5-memphis-officers-fired-after-death-of-man-update-officers-charged-with-second-degree-murder.678046/page-3#post-100297705
Well, the thing is, I don't think the issue is a question of exposure, it's a question of actual morality on part of Americans.
Cops don't get away with shit because people don't know about the shit they get away with, because if that were the case Mike Brown would've actually upset the apple cart. They get away with it because fundamentally most of the public- left and right-leaning- approves of their behavior to enough of a degree to want to maintain the systems in place. This is in part because anti-Blackness is a somewhat universal belief, and also in part because people refuse to entertain alternative systems of community security. The moment the news reports a spike in crime, or some middle class jokester sees some shit on a subway from a homeless person, even the staunchest "pro-BLM" liberal will happily vote for an increase in police budgets, without fail.
America is fundamentally an anti-Black country, and we all operate with that knowledge to some degree, whether we want to admit it or not. We also all know, whether we want to admit it or not, that the police state is a great way to maintain this dynamic. So you are not going to move the needle significantly until you either A.) start caring about Black people as people, or B.) white people lose power. Really the only two options.
Nepenthe again speaking for all Black people. Who was it who pushed back against the white progressives advocating Abolish/Defund The Police and Nepenthe's desire for "alternative systems of community security"? Oh, that was Black people, who despite disparate treatment want
more and better equipped police in their communities. I bet there's no group with a lower approval rating for police than urban whites, urban Blacks are closer to suburban whites. Nepenthe, yet again, doesn't actually care what Black people want nor "about Black people as people", she only cares what she wants.
Since my ACAB principles actually are mostly impeccable I have no problem acknowledging that people actually do like and want the police. I don't have to construct elaborate conspiracy theories based around race essentialism (the actual kind, see above) to somehow claim that Black people don't have race consciousness and don't realize they're siding with the whites when they want the state to do what the state has promised to do but doesn't do. I don't have to pretend people excuse the state because of anti-Blackness even when the theory doesn't make any sense and is being used to complain about goons of the state getting punished (by a majority Black police department in a majority Black city) for their behavior. I don't have to be angry all the time demanding people just listen to me and create the police state I'm demanding to save us from the police state we have. I don't have to be a paranoid cop on an paranoid internet forum.
This lunatic thread is still going on with the same theme: it sucks that black cops are facing justice for their brutality.
How often and where that happens today is the question mark, but it will happen. And it's tiring, because the problems are so obvious and the bullshit excuses and defenses are so hollow and tiring. Fox News will already have their story of "police were given swift justice, why are people protesting now?" failing to realize it was only because there was something not quite all white about these officers. The rest of the playbook of bullshit and deflection is the same, they just skipped past the first few steps on the flowchart. If these cops looked different, we'd perhaps be at this step what, 12~18 months from today? They'd still be getting paid, and what the fuck does that say about all this?
I notice he says "the problems are so obvious and the bullshit excuses and defenses are so hollow" but then spends all of his time whining about how other people aren't focused on race. Completely ignoring that in this case, what is supposed to be done with police is actually being done (fired and facing charges), which leaves him and ResetERA.com even angrier than if the police had escaped punishment at all.