SSDD: Black Lives Matter organizers to protest, over an incident with the police that resulted in a black woman arrested with a broken jaw
From that much of a description, it sounds like some sort of unjust police brutality, doesn’t it? Yeah, but that’s only part of a story where only part of the picture is painted. Yet, the rest of the picture is basically explained, but it doesn’t change the fact that BLM still insists on conducting yet another protest.
Long story short, woman is caught by the police smoking pot with a friend. They even admit that they were doing smoking pot. Officers search the car and find more pot, and then decide to arrest the woman and her friend. Woman resists arrest, wrenches back and slugs an officer in the face. Officer then responds to force with force, slugs the woman, and completes the arrest.
Although not stated, the woman is arrested for probably drug use in a public place, possession of drugs, resisting arrest, and physically assaulting a police officer.
Maybe slugging the woman to where her jaw breaks might have been a little bit harsh, but in the heat of the moment dealing with a baked individual, shit sometimes happens. When she strikes first, I can’t say that I blame any person for instantaneous retaliation.
However, because she’s black, BLM gets involved, and suddenly this turns into a racial issue.
I’m sorry, it wouldn’t have mattered if this perp were a white guy, a Hispanic woman or an Asian male. Getting busted with pot and attacking a police officer would get any one of those demographics struck and arrested too.
At some point, BLM organizers have to stop and look at the context of stories like this and think “hm, you know what, maybe protesting because so-and-so was being a dumbass might not be the best idea for our group,” because the arrest had absolutely nothing to do with race, and everything to do with the actions and poor choices of a flamboyant drug user. But instead, a bunch of people are going to stand outside and clog up roads and draw all sorts of questionable attention, because they’re too blinded by the need to wield the race card and pushing an agenda that they can’t see the context of the story to know they’re holding a futile protest.
