Kozzle t1_j66spnf wrote on January 28, 2023 at 2:55 AM

Reply to comment by hearshot in Police Protest by thejgcole

Sure, I guess I just round this down to zero because it doesn’t fix the actual issue

swampoodler t1_j671y3p wrote on January 28, 2023 at 4:14 AM

What does?

SpaceMagnet t1_j68o2nv wrote on January 28, 2023 at 3:17 PM

Complete institutional change, starting from dismantling the system of policing that claims so many innocent lives over and over. How can we look at a system that produces these outcomes and not question it? What's changed since Rodney King? Since George Floyd? Since the origins of cops as strikebreakers and runaway slave catchers? The system cannot be reformed - now instead of hearing about white cops lynching black and brown people we see multiple angles of black cops lynching a black man - are bodycams and diverse hiring really the solution? No reforms have made a difference because the system is rotten to it's core.

swampoodler t1_j68rvze wrote on January 28, 2023 at 3:44 PM

Great. But in the meantime, swift arrests of the folk committing these acts is actually a small beneficial change.

SpaceMagnet t1_j68vs7q wrote on January 28, 2023 at 4:12 PM

But will that stop this from happening again? Maybe those individual officers won't lynch another innocent man, but when we see this happen over and over that 'small beneficial change' just isn't enough. Too often these "in the meantime" solutions are all that's ever done, and years later nothing effectively has changed.