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Black talk show host Larry Elder on Saturday put his finger on a major flaw in the arguments by Black Lives Matter that claim institutional racism is at the heart of the high-profile cases of police-involved shootings.
Elder, speaking to Tucker Carlson on Fox News, said the notion of institutional racism ignores a whole lot of reality, particularly in the case of Keith Scott, who was killed by a black Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer and whose death set off days of unrest in Charlotte, N.C..
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“This is a black suspect who was killed by a black police officer whose boss is a black PD chief — and rioters are attacking white people. What’s wrong with this picture?” Elder said.
“People complain about institutional racism,” noted Elder, highlighting the many levels at which black officials have been either appointed or elected, including the presidency. “How can you complain about institutional racism when blacks are running the institution?”
Elder said that although Black Lives Matter is protesting police conduct, the end result has hurt black citizens.
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“This whole Black Lives Matter movement, with George Soros’ fingerprints all over it, has resulted … in 25 of the largest cities … an increase in homicides and the victims of these homicides are the very black people that Black Lives Matter claim that they care about. It’s insane,” Elder said.
Elder also said that the conduct of those who were shot can explain why those incidents ended that way.
“Whatever happened to ‘Comply and you won’t die?'” he said.
He then broadened his discussion to all of the police-involved shootings that have triggered protests.
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“In almost all of these high-profile cases … if these people had just complied, whether it’s Tulsa, whether it’s Charlotte, these people would still be alive and if the officer has engaged in any kind of misconduct you deal with it while you’re still alive,” he said.
Instead of compliance being considered sound advice, he said it is instead considered “condescending to tell black people, to tell people in the streets, if you are pulled over by an officer, be polite, be respectful, comply with lawful orders and you will not die,” he said.
“Why aren’t people saying that? They aren’t saying that because they will be perceived as blaming the victim.
“The media treats blacks like children to whom the truth cannot be told,” Elder added.
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