Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

cloudymcmillon t1_j6devi3 wrote

Justice like the five cops immediately losing their jobs and being charged as well as condemned by their police chief and the DOJ?

10

catsmash OP t1_j6dg74n wrote

yep, that's all a great start! but i'm down with taking these actions to protest the law enforcement culture that facilitated what happened to nichols in the first place. if this act hadn't been caught on a separate camera, it would have gone entirely unaccounted for & unpunished, like so many other instances of police violence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022

34

Fun-Cockroach8339 t1_j6hx8a0 wrote

Police killings have been roughly static, so calling the 2022 number a “record” is misleading, especially considering that the U.S. population has grown in the past decade. Taking that into account, police killings as a percentage have actually decreased, not increased.

−3