There is footage of a police officer shooting Philando Castile, and there is footage of them arresting his fiance Diamond Reynolds with her baby girl. There is also footage of the little girl telling her mom "Please don't cuss and scream because I don't want you to get shooted." And conspiracy theorists are saying "this is faked like the Sandy hook shooting and Boston bombing."
This is the inconsiderate nature of an entire nation wrapped into one tragedy that is being presented in the news media. For one, if you're Black, then justice and fair laws don't apply to you. If you're a victim of color, then you're treated like you're the criminal. Two, if you're a White terrorist, then you're not even given a slap on the wrist.
Three, we already know that the police and the entire prison system is inhumane, but the indictment of the white police officer was a decision made by the public on a jury panel. And now that there is footage after footage of Philando's murder publicly displaying on the news and the internet, people have the delusional thinking that it has all been faked. It is a complete silencing and erasure of what it is like to be black in America. It is an erasure of slavery in America, and every way slavery has been intertwined thereafter in America. It's white peoples way of saying that black people shouldn't exist or either don't exist in their white world.
This is one of the many examples historically of the murders of black folks by white authority figures. But again, people want to erase that to forget that history. And once again, Emmett Till's historical marker was vandalized and defaced. The marker is to paint the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year old boy, who was brutally tortured by white men. The vandalism is once again a symbol that not only is history trying to be erased--but also that history of genocide is something to be mocked.
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