It's more than just the one guy, though. His co-workers who stood around and/or helped have been fired, but they haven't been charged with anything as of yet.
That's a detail, though.
Overall, there's a lot of voices inside this movement. A lot of them are new.
I don't know what their ultimate goal is. It may be they don't, currently, have one, other than to say the current system is not on their side. (Which it is not.)
And they may be saying, at heart, that it needs changing, in massive, sweeping ways.
I have, frankly, been wary of folks saying we need to upset the apple cart-- there's been a lot of them, from both sides of the aisle. I've always felt that it would lead to reactionary responses. But this may be happening at the moment anyway, and we may need to buckle in and ride it out.
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Date: 2020-06-01 04:01 pm (UTC)That's a detail, though.
Overall, there's a lot of voices inside this movement. A lot of them are new.
I don't know what their ultimate goal is. It may be they don't, currently, have one, other than to say the current system is not on their side. (Which it is not.)
And they may be saying, at heart, that it needs changing, in massive, sweeping ways.
I have, frankly, been wary of folks saying we need to upset the apple cart-- there's been a lot of them, from both sides of the aisle. I've always felt that it would lead to reactionary responses. But this may be happening at the moment anyway, and we may need to buckle in and ride it out.
Personally, I'm more in favor of things like what this guy talks about-- changes in how we do policing, and changes in how we fund it. https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224
But I don't know how that will happen.