[andrepd]

> Not only is there widespread assumption of racism being the motivation

Well, is there?? Everybody I seem to interact with doesn't think so. Where are all those bogeymen chanting racism right away? Surely you can quote some sort of survey to back up your perception, right?

[dbrueck]

For starters, go search Twitter for 'George Floyd' - it's hard to find threads that /don't/ make it about racism to some degree or another. But even a cursory search on other sides yields oodles of results; here's some from just the first page or two of hits:

"Racism killed George Floyd" - https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/04/15/day-after-day-rac... "George Floyd murder exposes rotten racism in the US" - https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1190140.shtml https://coloradohealth.org/insights/good-health/racism-publi... https://www.amestrib.com/story/opinion/2021/04/01/opinion-ge...

There's pages and pages of this stuff. And beyond that there's layers of not-explicit-but-not-subtle positioning of incidents - if a cop (of any color) shoots a white person, it's a police shooting and usually doesn't go much further than the local news. If a cop (of any color) shoots a black person, it's national news and the victim's race is mentioned constantly. If racism is not being implied, what is the relevance of his race?

[andrepd]

> For starters, go search Twitter for 'George Floyd'

Twitter is not a representative slice of the population or its feelings, so that's why your premise is right out of the bat flawed.

[dbrueck]

You asked for examples and so I gave them to you, and then you dismissed the first because you didn't like it and then completely ignored the other two.

I'm discussing this in good faith and am assuming you are too. Please update your reply or erase it. Thanks!

[Negitivefrags]

You specifically asked “where are all the boogeymen?” and the answer was “On Twitter” but that wasn’t good enough for you?