All lives matter
from Voice for Justice UK:
One of the glories of humanity is that we are all different. We have different gifts and different strengths. Different personalities – different likes and dislikes. And there’s a positive rainbow of skin tones and bodily types. Yet all alike are made in the image of God, and all are to be equally valued and respected. Difference is to be respected, and the attempt to impose dominance – whether by Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, or Western ideological totalitarianism – is always wrong. Sadly, this is exactly what we are seeing in the attempted exploitation of what is branded racial discrimination by extremists, whose goal is the destruction and dismantling of Western society and culture.
The recent shocking killing of George Floyd has rightly led to an explosion of anger over police brutality and discrimination against the black community in the US. Interestingly, however, exactly the same thing happened in July last year to Tony Timpa, a white man in Dallas, who was similarly knelt on and choked by police officers till he died (https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/you-re-gonna-kill-me-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-the-final-minutes-of-tony-timpa-s-life/). Mr Timpa’s family are also fighting for justice – but his death has largely passed unnoticed. Certainly there have been no demonstrations or mass protest. One wonders why. Despite then what is being alleged by the current wave of protest, unprovoked police brutality in the US would appear to extend to all racial groups, and their policing methods as a whole need urgent review.
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