White House reporter Tommy Christopher got into a heated Twitter conversation about Sandra Bland that quickly devolved to his use of the word “cock.” The argument involved a story he wrote on Bland, the black woman who was pulled over for a traffic violation and ended up dead a few days later.
In the reporter’s mind, there was an obvious injustice.
So when a reader suggested that Bland putting her cigarette out might have diffused the situation, Christopher went on a crude tirade on the dead woman’s behalf.
But let’s unpack this whole thing, shall we?
Christopher, who writes for The Daily Banter, squarely sides with those who believe that there is something fishy about the way in which Bland died.
“It was warranted when cellphone video emerged featuring the use of force during Sandra Bland’s arrest, it was warranted because she was a #BlackLivesMatter activist, and it was warranted because, as her family has pointed out, Sandra Bland was starting a new life and a new job.”
No matter her past or anything else going on in her life, Christopher is adamant that if Bland’s death was suicide, it was definitely a result of the police stop.
“But even if Sandra Bland’s death was, indeed, a suicide, there is little doubt that it was her arrest that precipitated it. Despite what her family says, it is possible that as Sandra Bland watched her car being towed away after the stop, as she sat in jail contemplating the $5,000.00 bond she needed to raise in order to get out and start her new job and new life, and the up to ten years and $10,000.00 fine she faced, as her entire life had just turned on a dime, that she succumbed to despair.”
Christopher, who helps support black people by not eating watermelon, winds up his story by ripping on cops. “All cigarettes matter,” he wrote. “Black lives? Not so much.”
And now we proceed to Christopher’s Twitter argument with a guy named “BJM.”
Christopher starts out rather tamely, tweeting a link to his story and coming to the assistance of his brothers and sisters in the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Things got dicey when a reader suggested that all Bland had to do was put out her cigarette and “comply” with that “monumental task.”
This prompts Christopher to say that Bland giving the officer a blow job might also have helped dissolve the friction.
The reader tries to take the high road in this hell hole.
