Running racism in America thread

I agree, we'll see.

Garner's friend who filmed his death went to jail on unrelated drug and weapons charges. You make it sound like he was arrested that day. It was a year or two later, and he sold heroin to an undercover cop and had a gun on him.

 

Clearly? I don't agree.

But yeah, he claims he has been targeted.

If we're being honest?

What happened to Garner was horrific. You had a couple of thug-like cops, who seemed to treat the street like it's their job to dispense instant justice, kill a man. Everyone should have been outraged by what that video showed.

But what seems more clear to me about Orta, the guy who filmed it, is that he kept getting into trouble for selling drugs and walking the streets with guns, and he then made the Garner incident into his goto for how he has been wronged.

Maybe the cops are targeting him, but if that's the case, he could have done a better job of proving it, rather than just alleging it a lot. He pled to the drug and weapons charges. Would you really guess that he's not a guy who was on their radar screen over and over again for selling drugs on the street?

I'd guess it's way more likely that he has been transferred around the system and ended up in solitary because of things that happened while he was in jail, rather than some corrections officers hundreds of miles away from NYC being part of a plan to harass him. Doesn't mean that the corrections officers aren't abusive, or that the system isn't disgusting, but this guy also seems to have a nose for finding trouble, too.

I don't think his story is as clear as what we saw with Eric Garner.