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Posted on: June 3, 2020 at 08:45:02 CT
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A couple of things I've thought over the past several days. Take 'em or leave 'em.
1. Cop murdered the guy. Just, absolutely horrible.
2. Cop may have known the guy previously. Still murder. In my mind there's possibility for nuance there: he may have just wanted to kill the guy, whether or not he was a cop, and whether or not he was black. Does that matter? Maybe to him, but not to George Floyd and certainly not to onlookers. Still murder.
3. Blacks seem to be killed at a higher per capita rate than whites by police. There are more, total, whites killed by police than blacks, however, and blacks seem to per capita (from statistics available) commit more crimes. However it is possible that those stats are skewed if blacks are being policed differently than whites.
4. Police seem to kill quite a few people. And yet, it seems necessary from both a crime deterrence standpoint and a self-defense perspective for the police to be reasonably armed. Police also have jobs that are difficult and sometimes dangerous jobs. I don't know that it's reasonable for us to expect that through reform, training, etc., that we can get the policing error rate (i.e., number of people killed) down to zero. What is acceptable? How will we know?
5. Say you're going to protest x, y, or z. How do you know if your protest was effective?
6. It seems like some, but not all, of the charges of racism blacks are making towards whites are based on some variation of "you expect that I'm dangerous/I'm a criminal," etc. Burning stuff and looting is not a good way to combat this perception.
7. Peaceful demonstrations/protests have given others the cover to do harm (looting, vandalism, rioting, etc.) These actions are apparently to some degree unrelated to the police killing George Floyd.
8. American cities desperately need *more* POC in policing.
o'l-d