ObjectivityIncarnate

Nice bullshit headline that implies the cops are just so racist (gotta be sure they mention the jaywalker’s race, right?) that they saw a black guy jaywalking and just decided to gun him down for it. Meanwhile, from a better article:

At some point during the struggle, Reinhold grabbed hold of Israel’s gun in its holster. Duran shot Reinhold twice after he continued to resist arrest and kept his grip on the gun, prosecutors said.

The deputies gave voluntary statements to investigators that were corroborated by surveillance video, witnesses and forensic evidence, the letter said.

Gee, not so cut and dry after all, huh?

So if you actually read the article, that guy was shot because he ignored verbal instruction to return to the sidewalk, physically resisted being physically directed back to the sidewalk, and eventually tried to wrestle the cop’s gun out of his holster. This happened over a 12 minute span captured on multiple devices.

This fucking race-baiting sensationalist headline would have you believe cops saw a black guy jaywalking and just immediately opened fire because they’re just that racist apparently.

His “actions” were nothing but him stopping people who were in the act of trying to murder him unprovoked.

Despite all of the ridiculous politicization of the events in Kenosha that day, that is the fact of the matter. His life was directly threatened for no reason, he tried to flee, was eventually cornered, and used his weapon to stop the aggressor from making good on his threat.

It is not immoral or illegal to use lethal force to protect your life from an imminent threat.

by taking lives if necessary

That’s an aside you’re imbuing, he never said the above.

Bullshit. Global inequality is on a constant rise.

You are one of the many who has equivocated the ‘wealth gap’ with the incidence of poverty, when there is no direct casual relationship between them at all.

All the wealth gap essentially is is just a label of who has the most wealth. But you don’t need to be anywhere close to that to be stable/comfortable.

Fact: if everyone on Earth was poor, the wealth gap would be zero. A small/non-existent wealth gap does not equal things being in good shape.

Fact: The correlation between the size of the gap and the incidence of poverty in world history is negative–in other words, long ago, the gap was smaller, and many more people were desperately poor.

Fact: It is absolutely possible for there to be a wealth gap, even one as large or larger than the one we have presently, while no one is poor. Further, it’s extremely unlikely that the hypothetical total eradication of poverty would shrink the gap at all, or even slow its growth.

Fact: If you waved a magic wand so that everyone in every county of the US, for example, had their income raised to the median, essentially wiping out poverty nationwide, the size of the wealth gap would literally be unchanged–the gap from broke to comfortable is nothing compared to the gap between comfortable and ‘wealthiest on the planet’.

New wealth is created constantly, it is not zero sum and never has been. And there will always be someone who has the most.

P.S. The World Bank’s poverty line has never been lowered that I can see, only raised, most recently in 2022 from $1.90 to $2.15 per day. So no idea what you’re talking about with ‘lowering the poverty line to make capitalism look good’.