I wish I were exaggerating. 

I’ve spent a few evenings watching a white journalist reporting from Portland, OR, saw him teargassed a few times

I’ve spent a few evenings watching a white journalist reporting from Portland, OR, saw him teargassed a few times but it never had me worried for his safety. Last night I saw Michael Harriot’s tweet that he’d been arrested, and I was more worried about a stranger than I’ve ever been. It was a relief to see…

You left out a key element of this. The official report first stated that the man “tripped and fell”... that Is, until the video emerged.

Any Reasonable Person: “Guys, you can’t terrorize and murder unarmed Americans.”

It being during that specific timeframe is for a reason. It’s not about conveniences or not affecting people. Their games will be shut down during George Floyd’s services today. 

It’s a protest action. People are drawn to notice an issue once it causes a disruption to a routine. It’s a similar principle behind protesting around an office building or on an interstate.

This is for anyone that is angrier about not being able to play a video game for 2 hours than they are about what is and has been going on in this country. That’s 2 hours they could use to stop and reflect and ask themselves that very question. 

Could someone explain to me how them shutting down access to their MP games for two hours help this cause?

I saw this crossposted on Kotaku, so let’s throw another analogy out there:

Right, it seems that you haven’t read the article because the “narrative” is to highlight the disaparity of black deaths to police in the USA.

I also use the analogy that when when discussing Breast Cancer Awareness people don’t/shouldn’t pop up with “All Cancers Matter.” 

Did you read the f*cking article? Get out of here with that bullshit.

Oh, sorry, my bad--I saw the story headline and thought this was a Jezebel article on an entirely different topic. Carry on.

Blaming the victim.

Pinned to the ground: Fine.

Please, tell us about your system of justice where there’s no correlation between the size of the crime and the size of the punishment. And the social contracts between citizens and law enforcement. And how first-degree murder is defined.

Go kill yourself. 

Don’t elect nazi Republicans. Come November, obliterate those monsters at the polls.

There were so many chances for the officers to not murder george floyd, I just can’t understand it.