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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis will go down in history as a major turning point.
I was thinking maybe I should say a profound turning point. Really strong adjectives are needed here. Hard to find adequate words.
Jerry2144
(2,046 posts)It is a turning point only if things change. And hopefully this marks the turn towards the good, towards justice, and towards treating people of color as people, first.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,625 posts)and that everything goes back to "normal" before long.
TygrBright
(20,733 posts)1. A sentence respectful of the magnitude of the crime is handed down;
2. The verdict is upheld on all levels of appeal; and
3. The sentence is upheld on all levels of appeal and fully served.
This is not yet "over" although it is a historic step in the right direction.
warily,
Bright
Alice Kramden
(2,157 posts)amidst the tragedy a thousand times YES!
Alice Kramden
(2,157 posts)We NEED a major turning point - it could be profound
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... can see the evidence of that after too unarmed killings and the PDs acting a damn fool
frazzled
(18,402 posts)It feels like the long-awaited expiation of American shamefulness that has trailed a long line of injustice in our lifetimes, from Emmet Till and Birmingham to this day.
There is hope for change at last, though just the first glimmer. George Floyds name and this day will go down in history.
Ocelot II
(115,280 posts)I'm enough of a skeptic to wonder whether it will really make a difference. Cops kept killing black people even after Chauvin and the others were arrested, and even at an apparently higher rate. It seemed like despite a whole summer of high-profile mass protests it kept happening over and over. I think long-lasting change will require an entirely different way of thinking about policing, not to mention weeding out the racists, and this will take a very long time.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,485 posts)This means having our cellphones at the ready for pics and of course video. An unintended benefit/consequence of the smart phone boom is our ability to watch out for each other when dealing with law enforcement. Maybe this will encourage all the good cops we are told exist (and I believe most cops aren't monsters) to take a stand and have a zero tolerance policy with the bad ones............
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I wish but I doubt it
mcar
(42,210 posts)I watched most of the trial, and I was so apprehensive of the verdict, even though this was an open and shut case.
I feel a sense of relief, and sadness.
sop
(9,946 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,035 posts)I think it's significant in helping to establish the notion that there are limits to "legitimate" police force, even against BIPOC. (The fact that this even has to be debated is absurd to me, but there it is.) It remains to be seen exactly what those limits are; since this is not a federal case, it only applies as precedent in Minnesota, and only if it stands on appeal.