I’ll be really disappointed if nothing is done about this. Wishing you the best from the north

It is starting at the intersection of Minnesota & Good Hope. Then walking down to MLK and up into Congress Heights. Bring your white friends.

The officers have already been fired and are being charged with murder.

I’m not sure that counts as a systemic solution

It's not nothing either

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

Yeah right like anyone should tell a fed poster what their protest plans are on Reddit.

What does?

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?

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.

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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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

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.)

>your clearly broken country,

Focus on your own country.

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

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.

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

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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>America's Hat

That's funny. Take my up vote

How about go to the Memphis police department since that’s where it happened and literally has nothing to do with DC police or anyone who works on the hill