Once again there has been a high-profile case in the United States of police officers causing the death of an unarmed innocent person, a tragedy made so much more outrageous (at least in that country) by the fact that the victim was black.
While the full details are yet to be published, according to some reports apparently this guy had no criminal record of any sort nor was he in the commission of any sort of serious crime (other than, possibly and allegedly, a more minor infraction of "reckless driving").
While driving he was pulled over by a police squad car, who proceeded to order him out of the car and on the ground. (Because of this extreme reaction to what apparently was a minor infraction, I really have to wonder if in their view the suspect took too long to stop the car after being signaled to do so. Because, as evidenced by myriads of cases, not stopping your car immediately when signaled is the worst trigger for a police officer, who will proceed to treat you like you are an extremely dangerous hardened criminal who has just escaped prison and is on his way to commit a mass shooting.)
But anyway, that's not here nor there. For some reason the police officers started escalating the situation instead of de-escalating it, they didn't like that he just sat on the ground instead of laying down (even though their command was unclear in this regard) and they started pepper-spraying him and wrestling with him. The guy for some reason got up and started running (possibly in a panic or something) resulting in a short chase, joined by more police officers, who then proceeded to restrain him, pepper-spray him repeatedly, kick him in the face while he was restrained on the ground, and then taken up and punched in the face. Police batons were also involved in the scuffle. The man died in a hospital a couple days later from his wounds.
Camera footage of the event shows that this violence was completely unnecessary and an extremely clear-cut case of absolutely excessive police brutality and retaliation. The five police officers involved were immediately fired, arrested, and put under investigation for numerous violations and crimes.
As you might imagine, this would be a jackpot for the American far left: Yet another unarmed innocent black man being horrendously brutalized and killed by police officers, this time in a very clear-cut case of unjustified police brutality and retaliation, without any question.
Except for one inconvenient fact: All five police officers involved in the incident were black.
As we saw with the Will Smith vs. Chris Rock incident, whenever high-profile black-on-black violence happens, this puts the far left in somewhat of a pickle: How to pin this on white people? How to blame white people for this?
In this case not much logic is really used by the far-leftists: To them this is just another case of "white supremacy". Even though it was five black police officers beating a black man, it's still "white supremacy" somehow. And I'm not even interpreting: It's the exact term that they are using.
I have no idea how black police officers beating a black man is somehow related to an ideology that posits that white people are superior to other races, but the leftists do not need any logic nor reason to throw their accusations.
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