Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.

In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.

Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.

            • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              So you don’t even understand how the spoiling ethylene analogy works lol.

              Either way, I hope you reflect today and stop making yourself useful to bad actors by sowing discord and division.

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                5 months ago

                I wasn’t interested in your analogy. You take the ludicrous position that there being fewer crimes by racist cops has some meaning that there are somehow good cops now, not the fact that laws were absolutely necessary to stop their behavior. And it still didn’t stop it anywhere near as much as it should have. And if those laws were gone, it would go back to being as bad as it was.

                I don’t have to sow discord and division, we have an entire group of uniformed people in blue who do that just fine themselves when they do things like shoot an unarmed black woman in her home. You know, this event you seem hell-bent to use to tell us all about how there are good cops.

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                  5 months ago

                  Oh I understand. It doesn’t make you not wrong both literally and metaphorically in one of the worst ways possible which is frustratingly sad in how it’s completely antithetical to your goal. But I understand.

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                    5 months ago

                    You do know that just declaring someone to be wrong doesn’t make them wrong, right? You are not the arbiter of reality.