Excellent reply ellu thanks for some of those articles, I never tire of learning. Shaver died unarmed while crawling on his knees with his legs crossed and with his hands locked behind his head, until he lost his balance. He was not resisting, fighting with, or running away from the cops, unlike some of those that get plastered on my TV 24/7 and celebrated as heroes. He did everything right and was still killed. The cop was not charged. That defeats the narrative that Plantation Joe was pushing after the DC mess, as does the standing by, and even tacit approval this summer by many on the left while so much violence and destruction was happening in our cities. It was Biden's comments that I was replying about and wondering why he would even go there if he's seeking unity as he claims. If BLM is so interested in helping those like Shaver then why do they seem so focused only on one race as evidenced by their name? Have they ever encouraged NBA or NFL players to kneel for 14 minutes in honor of Tony Timpa? This happens to all races and yet the narrative sounds completely different in the MSM. It was not the case with Shaver and some of the AA deaths, but would you not agree that if suspects would do the simple thing of following an officer's orders instead of resisting, fighting with, pulling a weapon on, and trying to flee, that the vast majority of these deaths, no matter the race, would have turned out differently?I'm not going to get into the whataboutisms but I do want to clarify that BLM supporters brought national attention to this, they marched over it, they tweeted about it and they protested an unjust verdict. The All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter crowd...I have no evidence they did the same, open to any evidence that can be provided.
"Through their platform Campaign Zero, released in 2015, Black Lives Matter has urged comprehensive reforms including the establishment of disciplinary police commissions and civilian complaint offices, strengthening of use of force policies, and investment in rigorous and sustained training for police officers on engaging with the public.
At the Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf argued that the case of Daniel Shaver should serve as a rallying call for Americans who have previously viewed Black Lives Matter as divisive.
"If you're horrified by Daniel Shaver’s untimely death, yet against Black Lives Matter, consider that Shaver might well be alive if only the Mesa police department had long ago adopted reforms of the sort that Black Lives Matter suggests," he wrote.
Meanwhile, others on social media noted that groups which might be expected to jump to Daniel Shaver's defense—the NRA, which supports Arizona's open-carry laws that allowed Shaver to have a firearm and the "All Lives Matter" movement which ostensibly hopes to draw attention to the killings of white Americans—have been silent about Shaver's death."
#BLM Activists Call Attention To Graphic Video Of Daniel Shaver's Death At The Hands Of Arizona Police
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by Blavity Team
December 10, 2017 at 12:04 pm
The Jan. 18, 2016 shooting of Daniel Shaver by a police officer in Mesa, Arizona has brought police brutality back into the national spotlight because of the diligence of the Black Lives Matter activists.
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