When it comes to social justice, empathy is weaponized to drown out any factual dissent with accusations of racism. It was considered racist to bring up the fact that Floyd was saying “I can’t breathe” before officers even touched him, likely due to the amount of fentanyl in his system. Jacob Blake was shot in the back by police officers and his family was visited by then vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris after the incident. It was racist to mention that Blake was reaching for a knife in his car before he was shot. Rayshard Brooks was killed by the police, not for simply driving under
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