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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by triceratops on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:47AM (#26038255)
> It would simply be inconceivable that the officer who shot Daniel Shaver to death would have been acquitted had Shaver been black instead of white

Why is that inconceivable? The officers in the Breonna Taylor shooting weren't even charged. At least this officer went to trial and was found not guilty by a jury of his peers.

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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by CryptoPunk on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:07PM (#26051709)
Because there is a video of Shaver crying for 2 minutes, while displaying zero defiance and total willingness to cooperate, before the officers shot him.

I cannot even imagine the kind of nation-wide riots that scenario would generate as the video of the shooting, which would be attributed to racial bias, circulated on social media.

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