Well said, they’re definitely flip sides of the same (blood-smeared) coin...

Absolutely. I tried to say as much. But I really want to de-emphasize fear as an explanation for police violence. Anti-blackness creates that fear in the moment when a black individual is perceived as a greater threat and killed because of it. Thats’a an unavoidable bias that we refuse to openly acknowledge and work…

These aren’t two sides to one thing. On one hand, innocent black men were murdered by specific police officers, On the other hand, innocent police officers - who were not the ones who committed the murders - were killed by black people who were not the victims. These are two idiotic wrongs. If anything they are on the…

This is what happens when the US government and its local police forces execute innocent black folks in the streets as standard procedure. There is nothing good or just about last night’s shooting. There is nothing politically useful about it. This is a tragedy.