What everything comes back to is this: \u201cis it all right for police to kill someone who hasn\u2019t been charged with a crime, and go unpunished for doing so?”<\/p>\n
Spare me a single word about looting or vandalism or anything like that. This time last week there weren\u2019t people in the streets. Sometimes post hoc ergo propter hoc<\/em> isn\u2019t a fallacy. This is about whether it\u2019s okay for police to kill a man falsely accused of passing a fake $20 bill. Or whether it\u2019s okay to carry out a no-knock warrant and repeatedly shoot another uninvolved occupant of the house. Or whether it\u2019s okay for a redneck to decide to take the law into their own hands and chase down (with guns!) someone who they think is \u201csuspicious.”<\/p>\n Basically, does white privilege extend to extrajudicial murder or not? Don\u2019t let broken windows and a couple of missing televisions distract you from that question, and don\u2019t come back with \u201cwell, but\u201d – because that\u2019s the whole point. Racists are dying for you to be more concerned about a Target than about the fact that the police and their wannabe impersonators are able to do unaccountable murder. A political party that\u2019s spent years of capital on \u201cI fear my government\u201d and \u201cjackbooted thugs\u201d and who could put hundreds of people with rifles in state capitals because they felt oppressed by quarantine should be SHITTING THEMSELVES at the notion that the police can kill who they want and get away with it.<\/p>\n But they aren\u2019t. Ask why not. And pay attention to the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What everything comes back to is this: \u201cis it all right for police to kill someone who hasn\u2019t been charged with a crime, and go unpunished for doing so?” Spare me a single word about looting or vandalism or anything like that. This time last week there weren\u2019t people in the streets. Sometimes post hoc … <\/p>\n