Actually. I think I spent a fair amount of time on this. There are many very valid reasons why people would be afraid to be in an enclosed space with a mentally unstable man who was shouting threats that have absolutely nothing to do with white supremacy. You know this. You would have felt exactly this way had you been on that train.

Unfortunately, because the mentally unstable man was black in this case, you can accept no other explanation for his death. In any other case, by your own admission, you'd have agreed with me. This is spectacularly small-minded and simplistic.

I don't have the slightest idea why you think I'm "stroking Penny's nuts." Or think I don't have enormous sympathy for Neely. Nor, I'm willing to bet, do you. It's certainly not based on anything I've said.

I say, right there in the article, that Neely's death was tragic, that he desperately needed help, and that Penny used criminal excessive force in a chokehold that he held onto for far too long. But why let the truth get in the way of a little righteous outrage, amirite?

Lastly, I'm not patronising you. I'm pointing out how objectively toxic you're being in the hopes that it makes a dent in the way you treat people. It felt good to cuss because you're using a complete stranger as an outlet for whatever bitterness and unhappiness you have inside you. This, sadly is fairly common on the internet. But it's also a really shitty thing to do. And while I'm lucky enough to be mentally healthy enough that I'm unfazed by it, other people might not be.

Why add to the overabundance of nastiness that's already plaguing the world? Because you slightly disagreed with somebody on the internet?? Seriously??