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SpaceMagnet t1_j68o2nv wrote

Reply to comment by swampoodler in Police Protest by thejgcole

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.

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swampoodler t1_j68rvze wrote

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

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SpaceMagnet t1_j68vs7q wrote

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.

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