05-29-2020, 04:19 AM
(05-29-2020, 03:21 AM)Dill Wrote: Not so sure about that.
It sets the RWM afire for a time, but I suspect police chiefs, Majors, state reps and governors tend to become "awoke" after such incidents, and whatever their rhetoric about law and order and how little sense it makes to hurt one's own community, there is hypervigilance over police behavior to prevent more disruption--not in response to protestors, but to property owners and investors.
Perhaps. I was in the eighth grade when the officers in the King beating were acquitted, triggering the LA riots. I still remember watching it on TV while eating dinner with my parents at the local chili parlor. It was the biggest display of civil disobedience/disorder I'd ever seen in my life at the time. Still, I'm not sure a ton changed. Cops are still using incredibly questionable to downright malicious levels of force, and the outcomes are still lethal, fairly regularly. We've had two big profile incidents in the last few weeks, plus one involving non-LEO citizens, probably more.