Discussion for article #243230
‘There they go…Tying BlackFriday, the most revered day for corporate greed, to BlackLivesMatter. How dare they!!!’ screeches the RWNJ-ers.
What follows is speculation on my part, but I just can’t help wondering…
If you look carefully at the drawings provided by the medical examiner during the autopsy of the murder victim, you must conclude that either the officer is a very poor shot, or he was doing something more than just murder. Police are trained to shoot for the center of the torso. In this case, there are a few shots in that region, but the majority of shots were to the periphery, almost as if the officer had decided that if the victim was going to be fortunate enough to survive, that he wanted the victim to be maimed for life. This wasn’t just an execution…this was also punishment. Either the officer is seriously mentally ill (perhaps compounded with PTSD and who knows what else), or this officer knew the victim and wanted to provide him with lifelong torture.
I’m also going to speculate on another related topic: the missing video security files at the nearby Burger King. If the police did indeed erase those files, then there is a strong probability that someone they knew would be incriminated based on that individual’s presence in those videos. Perhaps an officer (or someone the police are trying to protect such as the shooter or an undercover narcotics officer) met with the murder victim while the victim might have been in the restaurant or within range of the surveillance cameras. If I recall correctly, the medical examiner claimed that the victim had PCP in his system. What if an officer purchased/sold PCP from/to the victim? What if an officer had a run-in with the victim that would incite the officer to planned violence later? Also, did anyone test the officer (who discharged his weapon 16 times into the victim) for drugs? Firing a weapon 16 times in apparent rage smacks of steroid abuse or perhaps PCP.
I just gotta say…in general, Black Friday has become the such an offensive capitalistic undertaking for businesses to increase their bottom line over the holidays, that it almost comes without any holiday joy whatsoever… It has become more contemptible as a means to manipulate people into buying what they assume are bargains, but which really don’t exist like they used to, at least in the last couple of years I believe. Plus, making working-class people give up their family time, or just plain downtime, by being forced to work on Thanksgiving, just rubs most people the wrong way as it should. Better deals can be gotten at better times in better ways many other days of the year than today imo, if that’s what you’re truly looking to go after by way of gifts.
As for BLM…good at ya. Glad they’re out there raising awareness. I think its good that this visibility comes at a price to some businesses. Whenever I see local news showing the storming of businesses on Black Friday, they always seem to show African-Americans at some business trying to bust down the doors in an helter-skelter way…as if white people aren’t out in droves doing the same damn thing. The hype I’m sure for either is just that though…hype. Yet, that’s almost as offensive as seeing my local news showing crime suspects always highlighted as black, but less often showing white suspects in the same identifiable ways. Its kind of the ‘racially-motivated’ way the news media institutionalizes black people as criminals in general. I guarantee they’ll show similar video footage of blacks storming the doors of box store and dept. store this year as well around this time. Its perennial stock footage they always seem to have on hand at this time of year.