Lawmakers ‘must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act now’, Biden says, amid shock over Sonya Massey death

Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.

In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.

Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.

  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    And it cheapens the whole important discussion around incidents that are racially motivated.

    No, it doesn’t. Nobody believes this.

    if it were a white woman the same thing would have e occurred.

    Cops don’t sprinkle cocaine over white women.

    Now, because I know I’ll have to explain this to you, that’s was something called a “figure of speech.”

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        Then you would be interested in why people think this is racist because false negatives are just as damaging as false positives.

        Do you think a hurricane warning is improved by people loudly calling for others not to listen?

        “Ah, but hurricane issuers do care about accuracy.”

        And what exactly makes you think that we don’t?

        Did the cop in this video sprinkle cocaine on this woman?

        I’m not gonna help you with this one. You’re going to have to sit in the dunce corner and really think about it.