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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    2 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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      2 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.

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        2 months ago

        True. Sauce, logic, and objective reality is. Which I provided.

        You have provided anecdotal hogwash based on feels making reals just as brainwashed through doomscrolling media as some of the worst MAGA Republicans I’ve ever met.

        People can understand you. They can even agree heavily. That doesn’t make it true lol.

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          2 months ago

          You didn’t provide “objective reality.” You said that civil rights laws mean cops aren’t as racist anymore, which is hilarious, because if cops weren’t racist, *we wouldn’t have to keep using civil rights laws to hopefully punish them for killing black people.

          This seems to be a lot more about you excusing cops for killing black people.