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Kozzle t1_j66s5v2 wrote

Reply to comment by hearshot in Police Protest by thejgcole

I’m not sure that counts as a systemic solution

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hearshot t1_j66smtf wrote

It's not nothing either

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Kozzle t1_j66spnf wrote

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

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swampoodler t1_j671y3p wrote

What does?

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SpaceMagnet t1_j68o2nv wrote

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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BlakeClass t1_j672pkk wrote

All Five officers are charged with murder

All Five officers were black

All of the body cameras and auxiliary footage was released

What exactly would you like done, I don’t understand, you want People to go Lynch five black people?

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Kozzle t1_j672vqz wrote

How about a federal oversight committee on police accountability? I don’t know dude it’s not my job to run your clearly broken country, I’m just spitballin’ here but you are delusional if you think simply firing and charging them is going to fix the fundamental issues at play that caused this.

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districtdathi t1_j677qu1 wrote

where are you from? I assume most people posting on a local subreddit live here. edit: nevermind... I see you're from America's Hat

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IcyWillow1193 t1_j683evk wrote

>your clearly broken country,

Focus on your own country.

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ArkadyShevchenko t1_j67yytj wrote

The problems run pretty deep and are systemic, cultural. I don’t know how closely you follow US politics, but on the national level, there is about 50% of Congress that most assuredly isn’t going to going support anything substantive. Realistically, state and local solutions are likely to be more effective, but it’s going to be slow. Getting widespread uptake of body cams is an example— I believe that has made a difference but it’s not a game changer. Would love any insights on solutions from Canada (not that you guys have ever had the same degree of police violence, but maybe there are things that are done in Canada that prevent this.)

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Kozzle t1_j686fri wrote

Part of the difference is we do have a federal police force that is also commissioned by the military…in other words a professional police force

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chickunsendwich t1_j676nod wrote

Absolutely ghoulish bro, you're attempting to concern troll about lynching in order to obfuscate the white supremacist nature of the system those cops were enforcers of. Seek help.

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