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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"This is America" Warning it is bad and will probably make you cry
It's bad.
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mzmolly
(50,993 posts)I tried to watch. I can't.
Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)mzmolly
(50,993 posts)I'll get the courage to watch soon.
applegrove
(118,677 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Im just reduced to crying all the time now.
If this years horrors dont bring change nothing will.
Tears are always stinging my eyes
In It to Win It
(8,253 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and the funny name underneath?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)I'm going to be sick.
procon
(15,805 posts)It's bad enough watching police violence play out in real time without stoking the anger quotient by opening up these old wounds to fuel the fire.
Let Trump play that game, we've got enough as it is.
chia
(2,244 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)it shows a long history of abuse, tRump would love to hide it pretend it never happened.
Nevilledog
(51,112 posts)Response to Maraya1969 (Original post)
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chia
(2,244 posts)It may not be De Niro who posted it, but most of those videos were recent/current, and they are spirit-crushing.
chowder66
(9,070 posts)OneBro
(1,159 posts)"old video, no value."
How recent must the killing be to add value to a discussion about police abuse? I still feel the rage from the murder of Philando Castile. Should I be over it already? What about the murder of Trayvon Martin? Not killed by a cop, so unrelated? If you or anyone else things the rage in the streets is solely about the murder of George Floyd, you are sorely mistaken.
I know I'm over-reacting because my emotions are straight twisted and I'm just on the edge of sanity; and I know I'm venting at you though you aren't the enemy because we can't always tell where the shrapnel is coming from, but I hope we can all agree that we are STILL fighting the fight we were fighting when Emmett Till and the Five Scottsboro Boys and the Groveland Boys and the many hundreds of black people who were abused and killed by police in our own country that our relatives fought and died for.
Personally, I think this video needs to run every few hours on every network. Stopped for a tail-light and nonchalantly shot in the back for foolishly attempting to flee. A death sentence for fleeing a citation for a broken taillight stop.
Each time we forget, they get more cruel and more emboldened.
One of my relatives asked why people were reacting NOW, "just" from the murder of George Floyd. After I took a moment for my irrational anger to die down, I explained to him that this isn't "just" about George Floyd. America has been feeding kindling to the rage for longer than my cousin has been alive, but the videos make it harder to simply forget. We play the scenes over and over in our minds as we try to go about our daily lives, even as we confuse the names of the various victims and places. Then one day we were watching George Floyd and Eric Garner and Philando Castile and trying to figure out who was who and when and what and why and then suddenly . . . there was a fire.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)to watch Twitter videos, so I was unable to confirm.
I will delete my post.
OneBro
(1,159 posts)I know we are on the same team with the same underlying goals. We should all be able to speak freely and make mistakes and share and learn.
Best wishes, and please be well.
blogslut
(38,001 posts)However, Mr. De Niro did not post it
gibraltar72
(7,505 posts)California_Republic
(1,826 posts)That is a tough one
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)It is pretty bad.
chowder66
(9,070 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)oasis
(49,388 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)I couldn't watch it.
Fuck. Tears welling up and triggered. I hate these cops. I felt hate when I saw what they did,and hate for the fucking law n order types.magats. I hate the right wing. I hate abusers.
The girl getting beat made me feel hate and wish I could destroy that pig.
Truth there is no karma,unless we become agents of karma against abuse and systemic abuse.
budkin
(6,703 posts)It clearly says "parody."
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)RoadRising
(31 posts)We have to make this stop.
Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)incidents from when they happened.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)so I'm guessing it's not DeNiro. I also only got through a couple seconds.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)there's something wrong with the orchard. Reforms are needed. Every video we see, we have to ask how many times this has happened when there was no one around to film it.
tblue37
(65,391 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Starting a race war at home is making America great again? Well, one thing is for sure, He has destroyed single handily the Republican Party.
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)but video is all too real.. All too real.
renate
(13,776 posts)Gee, I wonder if that's got anything to do with the fact that I'm middle-aged and white.
This week has changed my view. Someone I care about very much is a police officer, and I know him to be an extremely honorable, decent, and kind person with impeccable integrity and a great sense of social responsibility. That's... one person. I was letting what I knew about him color my impression of the force as a whole. I knew there were some bad cops; I had no idea that there were so many. I was naive. I was protected by the color of my skin, my gender, and my socioeconomic status. I hope I'm not alone in how much this week has opened my eyes, and I don't think I am.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Where is our hope to survive this all?
Where is our FDR or Lincoln?
Where is our collective decency?
I literally taste bile in my mouth and that watery sensation that happens before I have to vomit...
This cannot continue...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It made me feel physically ill, angry and filled with despair. What a sick country we live in.
dickthegrouch
(3,174 posts)Whether active or passive in the attacks, they were there and have no excuse for covering, and no justification for being proud of their badge.
Every one of these violent unpredictable unprovoked thugs needs jail time.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)I had also already seen all of those disturbing videos over the years, to that point.