ACLU: ‘Black People Are Being Murdered and Brutalized by Police with Near Impunity’

[mystery-ak]

Robert Kraychik 23 Jun 2020

“Black people are being murdered and brutalized by police with near impunity,” claims the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on its website as part of a banner message soliciting donations.

The ACLU’s message reads:

    DEMAND JUSTICE NOW

    Black people are being murdered and brutalized by police with near impunity. Act with us to end police brutality, demand racial justice, and defend our right to protest. Your donation will fuel our legal battles and urgent advocacy efforts.

The ACLU also calls for an analysis of possible “reparations” to be paid to African-Americans, referencing congressional bill H.R. 40, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), entitled “the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.”

On a slide entitled, “DIVEST FROM THE POLICE. INVEST IN COMMUNITIES,” the ACLU states, “Police brutality against Black and Brown people must end. It will take a complete reimagining of policing in America. Join us in our vision.”

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[The_Reader_David]

They are understating the problem with American police. A more accurate statement would be "people are being murdered and brutalized by police with near impunity."

I refer you all to https://quillette.com/2020/06/11/racist-police-violence-reconsidered/.  I will post an excerpt as a thread starter if I don't find it in a search.  James McWhorter for now, until the woke mob notices what he wrote, a contributing editor to The Atlantic has almost exact parallels to all of the recent notorious police mistreatment of black people in which the victims were white.  The closest parallel to George Floyd is even more outrageous:  Tony Timpa died of suffocation under the knee of a police officer in circumstances where there was no probable cause to believe he had committed a crime:  aware that he had mental health issues, Timpa had called the cops on himself because he feared he might be a danger to himself while intoxicated.

[PeteS in CA]

Even ignoring the fact that the majority of police shootings are justified, the number of blacks or people generally killed by police is statistically insignificant in comparison to the country-wide numbers of murders - blacks or people generally.

Not that the ACLU gives a @#$% about facts.

[mountaineer]

Name one.