Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Harvard Professor: The Facts About Police Brutality - Roland Fryer" video.

  1. What he said about education is more important than anything else said in this interview.
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  2. ​Another factor in all of this is social media and the rumor mill. Take the Jacob Blake incident. It immediately came out on social media that the police were there to deal with a fight at a block party. No. They were there because the ex girl friend had called 911 because she had a restraining order against Mr Blake. Plus there was an arrest warrant issued against Mr Blake on a 3rd degree sexual assault charge. City officials knew all of this within hours at most. Probably much less. I wonder who spread the block party rumor. I wonder what their motivations were. The initial video recorded from across the street was clearly edited. Context and content matter. For good or I'll. Did Mr Blake deserve to get shot? I doubt it. The number of shots fired? I have my own ideas on that. Adrenaline and the type of weapon involved in my opinion had something to do with it. A semiauto pistol takes a lot less effort to fire multiple rounds than a double action revolver.
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  3. ​Blameless? No I don't think the US is blameless. Sometimes it was blatant pseudo colonialism. The US government using political and military power in the interests of companies such as United Fruit. Thankfully those days are past. But l think far more damage has been done by the residents of the US by those residents who use illegal drugs provided by criminal organizations in certain countries in Central and South America. As far as l am concerned any violence, any governmental instability or social instability that can be attributed to these cartels is partly the responsibility of their customers. Be they in the US, Canada or anywhere else.
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