“This Is Not Okay”: Victim of BLM Martyr Confronts Protesters

This one is a doooooozy.

If you can’t keep up with the slew of innocent*, peaceful*, non-confrontational* black men who are routinely murdered in cold blood* by the police, you’re excused, because the note that goes with all those asterisks is *almost never the case. (Normally I would look for a link to direct you to a source for this claim, but honestly this one encompasses far too much to find a singular source, so please take my word for it or DM me on Twitter and I’ll get you what you want.)

ANYWAY.

The most recent martyr selected by the BLM crowd is Tekle Sundberg, who was shot by police after a six-hour standoff. The standoff began after he made some pretty solid attempts to kill a neighbor and her children. Details of the exact progression of events are still forthcoming.

Sundberg’s family claims he was having a mental health crisis, which may well be true, but one thing we definitely know for sure is that he fired shots into a woman’s apartment that could very well have hit her and/or her children. It is unclear whether Sundberg specifically targeted Arabella Yarbrough or if she was just unlucky.

To plenty of people, however, these details don’t matter: A black man was shot by police, and therefore he was absolutely blameless. A crowd gathered outside of the apartment complex where this tragedy took place to say as much when Yarbrough approached them.

“This is not okay,” Yarbrough shouted through her tears. “This is not a George Floyd situation. George Floyd was unarmed.” She continued to speak on behalf of her (understandably) traumatized children, referencing the bullet holes in her kitchen.

“I wish I had a place to call home! I can’t sleep at night!” Yarbrough said.

One would hope that the crowd gathered would respond with sympathy, but I think y’all can already tell that’s not where this is going, because the entire world is borked and a cleansing wall of fire is the best we can hope to deserve at this point.

“Shut up!” yelled some of the protesters. “You’re alive!” pointed out others.

Are you for f*cking real? Someone ought to kick whomever said that in the balls, then punch them in the nose. Why you crying, boo? You’re still alive.

I am someone who is extremely passionate about criminal justice reform, and as such likely have more empathy for lawbreakers than the average person. I also have the bleedingest heart for those who suffer with mental health problems. But even I know these protesters are behaving absolutely abhorrently. They are sick.

What a topsy turvy world we are in, when perpetrators of crime are revered as heroes and their helpless victims are told to shut up and sit down.