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_Joe_Momma_ t1_j69ejf2 wrote

Reply to comment by Charlesinrichmond in Virginia Union University Post Regarding Tyre Nichols by Mollysindanga

Bud... the world is hurt. Again: a person was beaten to death by authority figures. Is that part of the world worth preserving or destroying?

And how do you lock up authority figures, when they have, you know... authority? Wouldn't they need to be forcibly removed from those positions of power to be held accountable?

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Charlesinrichmond t1_j69j5re wrote

It's worth fixing. Destroying is a rather juvenile way of looking at it.

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_Joe_Momma_ t1_j69lnwa wrote

Who fixes it? Because the only people with authority to do that are clearly corrupt and malicious as all hell and they're not going to listen to public demands unless they are forced to. And even then, that's not corporation to fix things, that's a Mexican standoff.

They have to be removed from authority. And how do you remove them in a way you wouldn't categorize as "destructive"?

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Charlesinrichmond t1_j69uf98 wrote

the cops were arrested. They are charged with murder. Seems like things are working.

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_Joe_Momma_ t1_j69vgh1 wrote

How did they get to those positions of power in the first place?

Would the outcome have been the same if a traffic camera hadn't caught them?

How many similar instances have already happened and are going to happen without being caught if things don't change?

If drastic changes aren't made, it will happen again and again and again. The king is dead, long live the king.

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Charlesinrichmond t1_j69vlat wrote

changes yes. Drastic changes just mean more people dying

Arresting and charging the officers here is a big change

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_Joe_Momma_ t1_j69yvex wrote

>Drastic changes just mean more people dying

Theoretically. And if the changes are done well and stick, deaths will stop.

Allowing things to continue as they will absolutely cause further deaths, continually, until things are drastically changed.

The halfway point between justice and injustice is injustice. Taking half measures is how chattel slavery continued out of the 3/5ths compromise, it's how segregation came out of reconstruction, it's how the prison industrial complex came out of desegregation, etc. Half measures do not work.

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