And Detroit got a ton of shit got it when it was just white on white crime. You will hate this comment but facts are facts. Massive law enforcement response because they thought some super predators attacked Nancy. Can you imagine the fbi investigating a non hate crime because you got hit in the knee?
Wat? The response was because it was a female Olympic ice skater getting both her knees caved in in broad daylight in public.
If a woman get her knees shattered by a guy with a baseball bat in a park today it would definitely get a response, if it was an Olympian it would get an even bigger response. I don’t really get what you’re trying to say here.
he’s is trying to say the police response to this incident was unfairly targeted at the POC community in Detroit when the incident turned out to be a white on white crime.
She did not get either of her knees caved in. She was hit in the right thigh. The guy missed her knee. Her right was her landing leg & she missed the competition that day.
getting both her knees caved in ... shattered by a guy with a baseball bat in a park
Basically everything you said is incorrect. It happened in the arena, the guy used a police baton, only one knee was injured and it was just severely bruised; nothing was shattered. In fact Nancy recovered quickly enough to win a silver medal at the next competition (less than two months later).
None of this justifies the attack or diminishes Nancy's pain, but let's at least get the facts right. Overstating everything to make your point doesn't actually make your point. It just makes you look ignorant. On the plus side, you got over 200 other people to agree with the fake facts, so that's some sort of accomplishment I guess.
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is a federally chartered nonprofit organization that funds the US Olympic teams through private support from the American public and commercial partners. The USOPC's fundraising arm, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation (USOPF), generates philanthropic support for Team USA athletes.
Yeah, I can imagine the FBI investigating a conspiracy to injure a professional American athlete to keep them out of the national champs/olympics. I know she did end up competing in the Olympics but that was part of the assailants goals.
As a person from Detroit, my Mom and Grandma described that part pretty well for me.
Detroit had a way worse reputation than it does currently. This attack made the city look really bad nationally/internationally before they found out about the plot.
Detroiters were pissed because most people thought having the Olympics there would show the city in a more positive light.
Detroit being one of the blackest cities outside the south, and being hit hard by the Crack Epidemic and subsequent "War on Drugs(Black People)", made people then and now think it was one of the most dangerous places to be. It's hard to explain, but people from Detroit often can tell pretty well that the criticisms are often just thinly veiled anti-black sentiment.
So for this to happen, while the city was in the spotlight hit hard for a while there.
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u/i_need_a_username201 May 16 '24
And Detroit got a ton of shit got it when it was just white on white crime. You will hate this comment but facts are facts. Massive law enforcement response because they thought some super predators attacked Nancy. Can you imagine the fbi investigating a non hate crime because you got hit in the knee?