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I wish people would take Kamala at her word. I mean, look at her history as a prosecutor. If you treat people right, who needs a prosecutor?
Empty words. That’s all they are.
will be interesting to see how Minneapolis decides to handle public safety going forward. My hunch is the next solution isn’t always better than the one before.
This whole exercise is a good example of why I am a big believer in Chesterton’s Fence admonition. Policies and procedures for police almost all exist for a good reason (With officer safety being, in fact, a good reason). The escalation of force is a very reasonable construct that exists for a reason. Self defense law exists for a reason. I might even say that qualified immunity exists for a reason.
Tearing all this down without reasoned understanding of why they exist only opens up the need to re-learn old lessons.
And George Floyd was killed outside of any reasonable reading of policy. The moment he was restrained and subdued his safety became the officer’s responsibility. The case is very different from Michael brown, Trayvon Martin, or Ahmad Arbery. They were all “unarmed” but (at least driven to be) violent, which quickly shifts the reasonable doubt to the other side.
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Well, not exactly. It is a resolution “declaring the intent to create a transformative new model for cultivating safety in our city.”
Pretty high concept stuff. https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/12/minneapolis-city-council-passes-resolution-to-remove-and-replace-police-department/
Here is the resolution. https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/File/3806/Transforming%20Community%20Safety%20Resolution.pdf
For gawd’s sake, they actually quoted Angela Davis in the resolution!
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