Joe CalhounSep 9, 2024
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Thinking about how Sonya Massey called cops for help and they shot her in the face at point blank range because her pot of water was threatening—and how Colt Gray killed 4 people and cops got him to put down his AR-15 and arrested him unharmed.

White supremacy is when a Black woman holding a pot of water is more threatening than a white mass shooter holding an AR-15 that he just used to kill 4 people.

Sep 9, 2024 at 3:22pmWeb
Show threadUncle PhishySep 9, 2024
@QasimRashid remember them taking Dylan Roof to the drive thru. Brutal
Show threadPippa 🌈Sep 9, 2024
@QasimRashid @phishy101 💯 that’s staying in my mind forever
Show threadSubductionRheologySep 9, 2024
@QasimRashid I suspect the problem occurred much earlier: To a school shooting the cops sent their best officers who had the skills to deescalate a tense and tragic situation; to a black woman scared that someone is outside her house they sent the guy who had previously been fired from several departments.
Show threadKingfisherSep 9, 2024
@SubductionRheology @QasimRashid
And it was the actual officers who were assigned daily to that school who talked him out of his gun...specialists for that situation not just random beat cops.
Show threadWm.sonSep 9, 2024

@Kingfisher @SubductionRheology @QasimRashid

If only the police cared enough to have random beat cops get more and better training, no?

Show threadKingfisherSep 9, 2024
@Sfwmson seriously...wouldn't that be great, if you are a beat cop you are selected because you are trained (and successful) to best handle the most variety of situations, instead of beat cop being the lowest rung on the police experience scale.
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Sep 10, 2024
@Kingfisher @SubductionRheology @QasimRashid This in no way excuses shooting an unarmed person.
Show threadCamerondotcaSep 9, 2024
@SubductionRheology @QasimRashid History says you're wrong.
Show threadAlexander The 1stSep 10, 2024
@SubductionRheology @QasimRashid What about Uvalde? Arguably, it can be an entire game of a certain Roulette involving a Revolver to argue that the cops send their best to specific situations.
Show threadderptronSep 9, 2024
@QasimRashid It's all well and good to consider that these are different groups attending to different situations. But honestly the response of all society on the way we treat white vs. black criminals, especially teen ones, is just outrageous. The way we treat the victims of crime differently depending on their color... It's systemic, it's blatant, and it's all of us doing it.
Show threadTom Bellin Sep 9, 2024

@QasimRashid Racism, yes. But also the only people cops are there to protect are the cops.

Masey made the cop feel scared. Thus the cop shot her.

Gray killed peers and teachers, but didn't threaten the cops. Thus the cops disarmed him.

Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Sep 10, 2024

@tob @QasimRashid I suspect that the possibility that the person is armed looms fairly large in the US cop's mind, whereas in other countries the possibility is very small and consequently police shooting of an unarmed person is extremely rare.

This is the price you pay for liberal gun laws. When there are more guns, more people get killed.

Show threadGrandpa DonSep 10, 2024
@tob @QasimRashid
No, she didn't make him feel scared. He made himself feel scared becsuse of vile racist bigotry. This is not "white supremacy." That is too passive a term. It just suggests skin color makes you smarter, more industrious, a "better" person. It is stupid. KKK-type racist hatred, fear, prejudice is another level. It is vile. People like that are not only not supreme; they are defective and a blight on humanity. This scum shoild have been red flagged, not a cop.
Show threadCrystal_Fish_CavesSep 9, 2024
@QasimRashid Ill never forget the video from the top of a fast food joint where a man was inebriated asleep in his car in the parking lot next door. He was understandably shaken and disoriented when woken suddenly by police and after questioning he made the fatal decision to flee. They shot him in the back as he was running away. "I got him!" the cop yelled as if he had just done a heroic deed killing a man that had been asleep minutes earlier. Oh thank you officer from saving us from sleeping people who over indulged. One guess what nationality the sleeping man was.
racist assholes.
Show threadMatthewSep 9, 2024

@QasimRashid

The FOP even filed a grievance to rehire Grayson with backpay, since he was fired "without cause".

@rberger

Show threadobscurestarSep 10, 2024
@QasimRashid Or when the Police Frat says they place their votes behind a convicted felon with a long history of racist and misogynist remarks instead of a woman of color who was a DA.
Show threadBill ZaumenSep 10, 2024
@QasimRashid To be more accurate, Sonya Massey was holding a pot of boiling water, which is dangerous if thrown towards someone, but the police had asked her to remove it from the stove. They could have simply walked over to it, turned off the stove, and emptied the pot. Instead they shot her, and murder charges were filed. Sonya Massey's family indicated that she was having a mental-health crisis and she had talked to the police earlier. She should have been helped, not shot.
Show threadNashvilleGuySep 10, 2024
@QasimRashid Saved this image several years ago... #guns #guncontrol #massshooting #racism