Is it just me, or have Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin been transformed into virtually the same person in the minds of many if not most of the people protesting these days? The differences in these cases are overlooked to favor their preferred narrative. In the Eric Garner video, it might as well be Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown dying after getting put in a choke-hold by a cop; at a sub-conscious level, I think something like this is happening. The Eric Garner video is used to buttress the claims made by activists when it comes to the other video-less incidents. Is there a name for this type of faulty reasoning?
This is disturbing, and frustrating to me because I am angry with the GJ decision in the Eric Garner case and believe the cop should have been charged with something. I don't believe his actions were justified by Garner's petty offenses or behavior, and there are many people on the right who believe this. On the other hand, I believe Darren Wilson was justified in defending himself from Michael Brown, based on the evidence.
It is unfortunate how the Eric Garner protests have become so intertwined with Michael Brown/Trayvon Martin protests. It's all one big protest event. It's like you can't agitate for one without agitating for all. Ironically, in death, their blackness seems to have robbed them of their individuality, they've been merged into one person by the supposed anti-racists of the left.
Okay, so let's separate them.
Mike Brown: I've said before, I don't believe Wilson's specific story where Brown stops and "bulked up" in the middle of charging at him - that's the sort of thing you'd see in a cartoon. I can absolutely believe that Brown decided he was dead anyway, turned and ran back at Wilson, and was shot in the head as he fell, either because he tripped, or because he had been hit. And as I said before, had the police collectively just backed off instead of attacking the neighborhood as soon as they came out to talk amongst themselves, this would not have been a major national event. But they did, so here we are.
Trayvon Martin: Let's make this one clear - George Zimmerman's version of events is absolutely impossible, and completely ridiculous. For the police chief to walk out talking about how sure he was that Martin regretted what he did...he fully deserved to lose his job for that one, and I'm glad he did. The almost certain truth is, Zimmerman started a fight with what he incorrectly thought was a criminal, and shot Martin when he lost the fight.
Eric Garner: Well, it's what we saw on tape. The guy apparently broke up a fight, had cops run up to harrass him, and then got choked out and had his head basically stepped on while he complained "I can't breathe". Then the offending cop waved to the camera.
Yes, these are all part of a larger pattern, which is a violent response to normal behavior on the part of black people. I can understand leaving Mike Brown out, since he may have been violent towards Wilson - but that does not justify how the police treated the rest of that community. You have missed the point - these people are *all* individuals, but it's the absurd response that shows that the people interacting with them, ignored their individuality. The outcry over all of this, is because they were treated as some menacing Borg, rather than as actual people.
