Law Enforcment

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Sandra Bland committed suicide in her cell after assaulting a cop. After a few days, video evidence proved it. But at the time, people were really hungry for examples to be outraged about, and here was this hanging...

Video evidence did not prove either of those things. The claimed assault occurred after he moved her out of camera view, and the motion controlled camera wasn't pointed in her cell.

Now, it's entirely possible that she did kick him off camera, and I consider it extremely likely that she did commit suicide, but your strong claim that video evidence proved it makes your next sentence a bit ironic.

So now she's crowbarred into the narrative every time. Facts don't matter. Actually they do and the game is to pick the facts that support your narrative and just avoid the facts that don't. Pretty soon you "just know what happened" and the facts don't actually matter to anyone.

Whereas you discount the entire video after finding one way that you interpret the facts differently from Vi.

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

Bull shit. Inflammatory bull shit. Crap like this is what helps escalate the racial divide in our country.

And you didn't even bother to do that.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Video evidence did not prove either of those things.

Read my post again. I did not intend to state both things were proven by video. Video evidence proved that she wasn't lynched.

Whereas you discount the entire video after finding one way that you interpret the facts differently from Vi.

Yes I do. If someone claims a lynching, and there was none, I absolutely stop and do not trust anything else they say.

I encourage everyone to do this too. Once you positively identify narration where the intent is to present a limited set of facts, in an emotional way, you may stop right there.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Video evidence proved that she wasn't lynched.
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Yes I do. If someone claims a lynching, and there was none, I absolutely stop and do not trust anything else they say.

Vi did not claim a lynching, and video evidence did not prove anything, but it indirectly supports suicide.