Unequivocally, black lives matter.
We can accept that truth, while simultaneously having compassion and sensitivity for the victims of violent men. (And those victims are usually women)
A violent man named Andre Sundberg developed a fascination with his neighbor, Arabella Yarbrough. (They lived in the same apartment building) This fascination ended up with Sundberg spraying many, many rounds from a gun, with multiple rounds entering her apartment in an attempt to kill her.
Police were (thankfully) able to evacuate Arabella Yarbrough, her kids, and all of her neighbors to safety, and they did so while under fire from the violent stalker. There was a six hour stand-off, and eventually police snipers killed Sundberg.
I have no particular information on whether ending Sundberg's life (and his threat) was a "good shoot". From the scant evidence at hand, there is no way to tell whether the shooting of this violent pscyho was justified, and given that the PD in question is the Minneapolis PD, a certain amount of skepticism of their actions is certainly warranted.
BLM protesters held a vigil for this violent man in front of the building where he was killed... the same building that is the home of the recently horrifically traumatized Arabella Yarbrough and her children.
Police too often take lives (and too often black lives) out of either willful neglect of duty, or outright malice. I'm in no way trying to minimize that. That being said it has been my observation that progressive BLM supporters far too often minimize or ignore the pain of black women that are the victim of psychopaths that get themselves shot.
George Floyd was trying to buy some chips with what turned out to be a counterfeit $20 bill. Even if it was a crime, there was no real victim to that crime, and there is no fashion in which it merited his death. But getting killed after filling a black woman's home with bullets in an attempt to murder her in front of her children, then firing on police that come to the rescue? If that woman and her children's lives, and pain, and trauma matter less to you than the violent man who tried to harm them, then you have put the lie to your claim that black lives matter to you.
When we say "Black Lives Matter", that has to include the lives of black women. If you consider yourself a progressive who is sick and tired of a society that tolerates (and too often glorifies) violent men with guns, then consider "picking your battles" about police violence.
There is room for nuance. I do not know if the police shooting of Andre Sundberg was justified, but I know that "celebrating his life" in front of the home of the woman he tried to murder is disgusting.
Below is a video of BLM protesters at a "vigil" treating Arabella Yarbrough with patronizing contempt and outright ignorance. It's hard to watch. The poor woman is incredibly traumatized by what she went through at the hands of a violent criminal with a gun.
https://twitter.com/DeevonRahming/status/1548439171693367301
Do better, people.
(And if you're a white guy patronizing and being demeaning to a black woman who was just horrifically traumatized, you're not "working for social justice"... you're just a bully)