Jul 27, 2020
Some Good, Necessary Trouble
When the news starts reporting things like Eric Gardner, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Oscar Grant, Walter Scott, Stephon Clark, Samuel DeBose, Alton Sterling, Jamar Clark, Terrence Crutcher, Akai Gurley, Anthony Hill, Jeremy McDole, John Crawford, Trayvon Martin, Eric Harris, Tony Robinson, Jonathan Sanders, and Michael Brown. You see after all this history of violence none of these deaths are an isolated incident, but that’s what cops want to believe because they don’t have to know the history. All this violence is what is called systemic racism. And I was kind of hoping we got it, but there is a patriarchy at play and it likes it’s power.
George Floyd died after 8:46 second of a police officer kneeling on his neck. Breonna Taylor was shot while she slept in her bed and Elijah McClain was choked out while walking home from the store. So BLACK LIVES MATTER took to the street. They protested. And cops wrote “no one hates bad cops more than good cops” on their social media, some took a knee and a few marched. Here’s the thing: it's your first Amendment right to protest to redress grievances against the government. So when all the people I just named had their fourth amendment right to unlawful search and seizure taken from them by the government (also known as murder), people used their first amendment rights to protest this. Unfortunately this constitutional right, in many cases, was met with rubber bullets and teargas. Thereby violating their First Amendment right to peaceful protest.