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Sure, but there is nothing leading us in this direction. Can you show us where you were publicly outraged when the death video was leaked? Ironically my first feelings were very much like yours, but I read some MLK quote and such and now I'm more like <shrug>. They're just fucking their community more than anything, but there will be no change without something significant like this. Another dead black dude sure won't do it.
Nothing is leading us in this direction because the left doesn't want real solutions to the problem. The solution I proposed doesn't involve race-related reforms. It involves reforms related to bad cops and getting rid of them before they do something terrible.
The left rarely suggests this (unless it's part of a broader race-related platform) because they only want to solve problems if it fits in with their agenda. My suggestion is too logical and non-identity-politicking for them. Usually their form of solutions involve a global decrease in justified use of force (or authority to question/arrest), which just leads to more crime and making it tougher for cops to do their jobs. That's why crime went UP in the years following the Ferguson situation. Basically the left only wants a solution if they can brag later that they saved the downtrodden and the oppressed.
Other than making problem officers easier to fire, there is no realistic "change" that can be proposed which doesn't simply result in being softer on violent crime and reducing police rights to respond to violent suspects. Can you think of one?
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