I definitely believe the murderer knew he was killing him. Not so quick to buy into the conspiracy theories circulating. They did work together briefly, with the murderer having worked that club for around 17 years it had been open, George having worked there for part of one year.
I'm more prone to believing that the murderer saw George hitting up on lots of white women with some success, which possibly fueled a racist anger in him. Based on appearances it seems logical to conclude that George fit the stereotype of a black man who had little respect for rules which, given how many police react when questioned on their often unconstitutional reach in many random encounters daily, would likely have fueled whatever racial hatred the murderer would have held.
I do believe the cop murdered him willfully, believe as well the cop believed that he could do so and get away with it. Happens to often in this country. All one has to do is look to YouTube for video evidence. While I don't believe not having police is the answer, there is a strong message here (and so many other cases) for there to be an accountability not only for their actions, but their masters who daily pass more laws making more of us criminals for violations that has no victim. Sadly, if George was given a counterfeit bill that he unknowingly tried to use, he was murdered despite already being the victim with the bill in question.
I understand the reluctance to rush to racism as the answer. As a person who shares the color of the murderer, it gets old being looked at suspiciously by others due to the color of my skin. I can't imagine how much harder it is to know when you walk out your door people given the authority to murder are doing the same towards me. Having been exposed to cops openly talking around me as a child, I know firsthand that many of them are doing just that though. There needs to be a discussion on many things in this nation, an honest one. One that addresses
The wrongly named justice system that daily looks for more ways to label one a criminal.
The worlds largest prison system that does target non white people more. Qualifying this to say in no way am I saying there isn't a bunch of white people also who are incarcerated who shouldn't be. Just not in near the same numbers.
The melting pot. Can it work or will there always just be to many people in each cultural/racial group pissed off stirring the anger and to some form being mini-terrorists.
Is We The People only for white people? Certainly one can see the original framers of the founding documents believed so or slavery wouldn't have been a thing, nor such actions as manifest destiny.
Internally, white people need to come to grips with the truths on what such actions as slavery and empire building has had on non whites. I'm not referring to reparations as such, although I'm open to the idea that the powerful families who profited immensely from these schemes should perhaps need to give their wealth to those they brutalized to gain or expand it. It's ignorant to pretend that these actions have had no lasting damage to the groups impacted, and shrugging and saying I or my family didn't do it minimizes what these affected groups went through and are going through. Perhaps there is no way of truly making the wounds heal, undoing the damage. This would go back to the honest question of can the melting pot work. But I know if these aren't addressed with more than a shrug (and without the political pandering pretending to examine it) there will be no peace.
Done with my response that turned into a rant. My frustrations at all of this is beyond exasperated, and I appreciate your openness to dialogue. I have known many fine people of targeted races, and have some that are very close in a family sense. It is a struggle knowing that there are indeed many who hate them through no fault of their own, as it also is a burden knowing others from their racial groupings view me with distrust and perhaps hatred as well. We need to figure out how we can come together and hold those responsible for amplifying the differences and exploiting all of us accountable or this melting pot will devolve into a bloody mess.
Thanks for sharing your ideas! There are additional factors at play too. I have a couple of new videos that show that a lot of the reaction was heavily financed and pre-orchestrated. As far as racism is concerned, I think a lot of this goes back to redlining and how that effected neighborhoods over many decades. It has a cascading effect that morphs into a feedback loop of crime and violence in both the black and blue community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM
https://banned.video/watch?id=5ed51723b1c7d4002fb5b148
https://banned.video/watch?id=5ede612d3df0b000240aa178