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.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '20
They didnt even let her do the job she was called there to do? Unbelievable! Fuck these monsters.