@ereoflight Hold up... you animated this!? Bravo sir ๐๐พ I absolutely LOVED this movie. The emotion in every scene was palpable. The look of determination on Miles's face when he realized he couldn't reason with Wiles... chills. Can't wait for Beyond. I hope you get to work on it
The video of the woman being brutalized by an LA deputy fills me with RAGE.
Not just because of the way that LA deputy manhandles that woman, that woman who is somebody's Wife being manhandled right in front of him as he himself watches, powerless, in handcuffs.
She is somebody's Mom, somebody's grandmother, somebody's sister.
Those aren't the ONLY reasons I am filled with rage.
She was filming her husband being wrongfully detained, as was her right to do.
She is a human being, who was violently tossed to the ground the way an NFL linebacker would do to someone fully covered in protective gear, and might have still drawn a penalty for "unnecessary roughness."
No, I'm filled with rage because after all of the video recorded brutalities and resulting deaths, after all of the protest marches, after all of the speeches, after all of the lives and families destroyed, after all of the convictions...
THIS. IS. STILL. HAPPENING.
Many of these police brutality incidents have been national, even global news, covered extensively on print, radio, and TV news. You would have to be living in a cave on a deserted island not to have heard of Derek Chauvin, even while the disgusting LA deputy positioned his knee on this poor woman's back.
Forget training: I am pretty sure they are not training cops to treat suspects like animals, to brutally beat on them and pepper-spray them in their cancer-afflicted eyes.
Why does one human being need training to know NOT to treat somebody's grandmother, or grandfather, or brother that way?
Why have we watched entire generations of people abused and killed by police ON VIDEO, but cops are still doing the same thing?
Why are they STILL so emboldened to abuse our bodies this way, as though nobody will notice or care, after dozens or hundreds of times these incidents have gone viral?
We shouldn't have to march to remind people our lives matter TOO.
We shouldn't have to kneel to make a point of it.
We shouldn't have to give "The Talk" to our sons and daughters.
WHEN DOES IT END?