You're right, it's not an excuse.
But, I want to see the celebrity voices express just as much pain and outrage at the systemic violence that goes on in black communities as they do when there's a police killing against a black criminal. Tell me you don't want to see that as well? Tell me you don't want to see a LeBron James or Doc Rivers come to the podium and say that the attention given to what was done to James Black and George Floyd is half of the attention we need to bring to black on black crime? No, you can't justify police killing of unarmed blacks, but you can't justify the undue attention that gets and the too little attention that goes towards the black on black crime that is, and should be treated as, a far greater threat to the black community.
And, I'd argue the Freddie Gray case, that you reference above, is a poor example of highlighting systemic racism but a great example of poor police conduct. The mayor was a black female; the top two officials in the police department were black; the city council was majority black; the state attorney who brought the charges against six officers was black; three of the six charged officers were black; the judge before whom two officers tried their cases was black.
