His crime? Being an old guy with limited mobility who was sat on a wall, and when the police decided to move their line past him that qualified him for a brutal beating and repeated kicks to the head while held down.
Savage, evil evil bastards.
What people do know is that I have been found GUILTY of undermining public health guidelines during the Pandemic.
What the public DO NOT KNOW is what those guidelines stated. So I will publish them here:
For the treatment of Covid patients in the Community/Nursing Homes settings, Doctors were advised as follows:
1. Do not take the patients blood pressure.
2. Do not listen to their chest (auscultation)
3. Do not prescribe any medication (paracetamol only)
4. Refer to end of life protocols (palliative care/midazolam).
What these guidelines effectively stated is this: Do not examine your patients. Do not touch your patients.
Do not prescribe treatments for your patients -and if they appear to be very unwell- sedate them and allow them to die.
I can only recall one period in human history when human beings were treated in this manner.
This is literally the only tactic they have left now. Pulling a silly face as if those laying reality out in front of them are the crazy ones. They have nothing left.
Keep pushing.
I distinctly remember being in a space where I was telling black people about the Karmelo Anthony story, how devastating it was to hear how Austin Metcalf died, how sickening it was that Karmelo got rich from it, and how digusting it was that Black people supported him.
How we needed to do and be better as black people. What was the bottom of the moral abyss for us as a collective? I was prepared to have an earnest, genuine conversation. And I thought everyone, because these were seemingly reasonable and educated Black people, would understand that getting murdered in front of your twin brother just because you told someone a seat was taken is horrible. That Karmelo clearly chimped out and was in the wrong and deserved to be under the jail.
And in the most calm, articulate, negrosplaning voice, one argued that we "didn't know the full story". To which I said, in what circumstance is it ok to stab an unarmed person to death after a conversation about a seat? What could have possibly happened to justify that?
And all I got was "what if he was racist?" "what if he called him a nigger?" "what if he was mentally ill?"
That's when I finally let go and accepted that at least 95% of black people need to sent to Liberia. "My people" cannot be saved if they refuse to be righteous.
If they're not niggers, they're defending niggers, if they're not defending niggers, they're pretending niggers aren't that big of a problem, if they're not pretending niggers aren't that big of a problem, then they're pretending niggers don't exist at all.
I'm fucking done. Karmelo Anthony needs to be given the death penalty and I don't care who cries about it and how many gas stations are burned down.