Something I should say more often

[Poopadoop]

Well the court has clearly deemed the use of force to not be excessive, or have found another way to dismiss the case. What change can we make here? Put all cases before a jury? That might work.

They all go before a jury in the US afaik. Someone else might know more about this than I.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that change is coming.

Good

Do you have evidence that the police are not trained to deescalate?

I'm sure some of them are, but there's plenty of video evidence that shows that's not their first response, including at the protests themselves. That suggests to me it isn't being given a high enough priority in their training, if any.

I agree that cops who kill without legal justification should go to jail. That would have an impact. But that alone is not going to change the systematic racism and the division of the masses.

It'd be a pretty damned good start though.