From Eric Garner to George Floyd: Protests reveal how little has changed in 6 years

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In July 2014, a black man suspected of a petty crime was pulled to the ground by New York City police and choked on the pavement as a witness videotaped him crying out, “I can’t breathe.”

The death of Eric Garner touched off protests across the city and around the country, energizing a budding project called Black Lives Matter, which swelled a few weeks later with the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Propelled by those events, and the deaths of other black men and women in police custody, the movement helped bring about a national reckoning on police use of force and other law enforcement tactics seen as targeting minorities and the poor.

But for all the change that has come as a result of that effort, it has not been enough to stop the deaths or disparate treatment, or to break the fear, repression and resentment that millions of Americans feel about the way they are treated by their police and their country.

Those emotions have exploded once again, this time at a level not seen in decades, triggered by a disturbingly familiar event: the death of a black man suspected of a petty crime choked by a white police officer in Minneapolis, captured on video as he cried out, “I can’t breathe.”

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[Bradshaw3]

1. What "reckoning" or changes have come about due to BLM?

Maybe a claim of "raising awareness". But have there been any large scale, nationwide changes in procedures, police training, or other positive movements that have been linked to BLM efforts?

Recently I read an article about one of the group's leaders who said he wasn't going to vote until systematic changes were made. I think it's pretty obvious, as Killer Mike said, that registering and then voting is the most important step anyone who deplores this police violence can take to start thre process of systematic change.