TomC my friend you've been misinformed. He was stopped for a traffic violation. That stop lead to him being identified and traced to a warrant for his arrest. For the record, it WAS NOT a felony warrant it was a gross misdemeanor warrant. Both you and Derec seem to believe he was a convicted felon and he wasn't. A good person? I have my doubts about that, but a convicted felon he was not.
He was not a convicted felon, but he was charged with a robbery. He died before he had a chance to get convicted. Given that he was already charged with armed robbery (a felony), he never should have been released on bond upon his arrest for a gun crime, even if "only" a gross misdemeanor. It is sadly common these days to release dangerous criminals in the name of "bail reform" and so-called "equity".
By the way, this is Daunte:
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It's a good thing the police found that gun on the scene where he was killed. Right? Right, Derec?
So, I bet that we could go back and dig up quite a number of situations where wealthy white men are charged for something, and Derec argues passionately (and still just as wrongly) that being charged, alone, is not sufficient for such aspersions as are layered upon those people there.
Yet being charged for a black man warrants a death sentence.
You know, somewhere in the world, there's video evidence of me doing very nutty things with a rifle. If camera phones had been big in '07 there would be footage of me being uncharacteristically violent and unhinged.
I think there's even footage that one could find on CCTV from a transit platform of me involved in an altercation wherein I block someone's passage.
I'm sure that, displayed, one could paint a picture of me as a violent sociopathic timebomb.
If you brought in some of the things I wrote in college, you could even paint me as a violent alt-right sociopathic timebomb.
I'm sure if I had full access to the film reel of Derec's life, I could paint quite a picture indeed!
The fact is, you can paint any picture of anyone by taking parts and elements of their lives out of context, especially when someone lives in a culture where the way to compliment a thing is often to threaten to steal it, among other such false expressions of hostile intent.