"It feels like the police are being challenged in ways that they haven't been challenged in some tim

[Demovictory9]

“It feels like the police are being challenged in ways that they haven’t been challenged in some time,” said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum. “They are responding. And sometimes, that response is totally inappropriate.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/police-violence-george-floyd.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

A Crisis That Began With an Image of Police Violence Keeps Providing More
Chaos in the streets and the ubiquity of cellphones have created a disturbing array of videos reflecting violent police behavior.



Cellphone videos show New York City police officers beating unarmed protesters and sideswiping demonstrators with opened squad car doors. Others around the country show the police indiscriminately using pepper spray on protesters or pedestrians. In Atlanta, a half-dozen officers have been criminally charged after a violent attack on two college students sitting in a car during protests. On live television, police officers in Louisville, Ky., fired pepper-spray balls at journalists.

A protest movement that was ignited by a horrific video of police violence — a white police officer pressing his knee against the neck of George Floyd, a black man, for nearly nine minutes — has now prompted hundreds of other episodes and videos documenting cases of violent police tactics.

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A compilation of videotaped incidents posted on Twitter by a North Carolina lawyer stood at 281 clips by Thursday evening.

The episodes have occurred in cities large and small, in the heat of mass protests and in their quiet aftermath. Some have occurred when the police confronted people who were suspected of looting. Experts on policing said that the videos showed, in many cases, examples of abrupt escalation on the part of law enforcement that was difficult to justify.



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Ed Obayashi, a California-based expert on the use of force by law enforcement, said the incidents, while often disturbing, were an overall improvement on past police conduct during episodes of unrest.

[Cha]

1. And, too many are Not taking it very well. In fact they're

responding like the Bullies & Harassers they always were.. but evidently hid it on their psyche evaluations.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Crunchy Frog]

3. There's very obviously a culture of violence, domination, and depraved indifference to life and

human rights. The mask has been ripped off. The barrels are overflowing with bad apples.

The entire policing institution in this country needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

[sop]

4. Rank and file police are the ones standing in the way of any reform, tacitly threatening total chaos

in their communities if they're held accountable and forced to change. In these cases disbanding entire police departments and rebuilding them from scratch will be the only solution. Temporary police forces, like National Guard units, could maintain order in each community while police departments are rebuilt.