There are 320 million+ people in this country, hundreds of thousands of police, spending millions and millions of man hours policing. Things are going to go wrong, bad stuff is going to happen. I get tired of all the America bashing and police bashing when these things are rare enough to be big news.
If the grass is so much greener, have at it I guess.
I think it's more a question of, "how is this a thing?" There is no legitimate reason to have your knee on someone's neck for that length of time. Don't we expect more from "trained professionals?"
I guess we'll see, but I would think that this officer, at minimum, loses his job and is convicted of manslaughter. Will the blue wall shelter their own on this? That, too, has historically been a part of the problem.
The real injustice for blacks is the 1000s who have died in gang shootings partly because police constantly have their hands tied and when the police do knab some thugs they get right back out. Where are the protesters raising awareness of last weekends black on black murders. At least 9 died in Chicago alone.
A'int that the truth. Whatever we're doing, it isn't working. I've long wanted to see a social experiment to combat recidivism: release prisoners to halfway houses built on farms in the midwest. The idea here is that most recidivism is because the person is released into the same hellhole from whence they came. They're now a fugitive, struggle to gain real work, struggle to gain real work that meets their parole demands, and eventually slip into old habits. Why not try taking them out of the hole to see how they do getting back into society? Anyway, just a thought.