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In reply to the discussion: Does anyone believe that the CHOP protest achieved something? [View all]Dr. Strange
(25,919 posts)42. Of course it happens elsewhere...
but there's something significant about the fact that this (nationwide) movement originated as a protest of bad policing, and the CHOP zone is now ending because their security forces shot a 16 year old black kid.
I can overlook them not putting together a constitutional republic with a declaration of human rights, but one of the fundamental issues here is: construct a society in which cops protect the innocent, as opposed to harassing/attacking them. They failed spectacularly at that.
Did black lives matter in the CHOP zone?
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Yes. Change occurred in the sixties because people worked within the system NOT
Wawannabe
Jul 2020
#14
Couldn't all those ideas & music & sit-ins & at be done without taking over part of a city?
jmg257
Jul 2020
#23
A few well meaning people had a chance to try out what they thought a collective should be in 2020
haele
Jul 2020
#10
I was impressed. Can you say all your big dollar donations achieved something?
aikoaiko
Jul 2020
#11
no. it was a side show. well, it did show need for some law enforcement
SiliconValley_Dem
Jul 2020
#26
Yes, as an observer from afar: It's a hunger for community people can identify with.
KY_EnviroGuy
Jul 2020
#34
Maybe? CHOP helped achieve this - "Corporate America Gives Blessing to Police Reform"
Wawannabe
Jul 2020
#43
About the same as the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
JustABozoOnThisBus
Jul 2020
#60