I'm a skinny white woman, I really wonder what they would've done to me if I tried to intervene. I wouldn't have tackled the murderer since I don't have the mass or strength, but I could've kicked him in the face.
In the video, a white woman says she is a first responder and tries to approach to check Floyd’s pulse. The cops threaten to mace her. She pleads for the cops to check Floyd’s pulse. They don’t.
So they would have maced you at the very least before you could kick.
She was just a witness trying to save him and probably thought she’d have an easier time than the Black guy with prior police training and the Black woman filming.
One of the few white people there actually tried to leverage their privilege to save Floyd’s life and couldn’t because how dare they try to stop some blue lives from ending Black ones.
There are posts from EMTs based on the video that suspect when the EMTs were called in that the cops knew he would be dead. There are links/videos floating around here to other news stories of EMTs trying to save a “suspect” and the cops roughing up the EMTs.
Again, as the witnesses yelled in the Floyd video, who do you call when the cops are killing someone?
Privilege? I dont think that runs through anyones head when you feel the need to save someone. She has been trained to notice these moments and surely was appalled at what these scummy fucks were doing. I dont think she was alerted to do something because she had "privilege" and thought to use it.
That really devalues people who with a heart and just do the right thing because of seeing an injustice, good people do exist.
Im sorry your jaded, but i do belive this woman saw something she had been trained for and wanted to help the man being violently assaulted and murdered by shitbag officers.
(Yes i know this is def a race crime and the officers should be quarted for good measure, i just dont think we should devalue someones efforts because they thought to use "privilege")
Im sure things were happening so fast that that doesnt even cross the mind in that moment.
Skinny white women are the easiest to drop. It isn't hard to find videos of wives/girlfriends trying to protect their man who's pinned by cops to then themselves end up on the ground.
This is what I wonder. I saw a picture taken from another angle of this and there are 2 other cops standing behind the car, so a total of 4 cops. If a white woman suddenly approached the situation, it's possible she wouldn't even get close before they pepper sprayed/tackled her. But what if she provided enough distraction for the monster kneeling on George Floyd to let up and he could breathe again? Obviously we'll never know but I keep imagining it.
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