Where are the bills to end the militarization of police and murder of black men? WARNING GRAPHIC PIC

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57. I hear you

...and truth told, Maryme, I do at times.
After I read Shock Doctrine, I lost nearly all hope about everything.
After I read The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker AND took some action, my hope was renewed. I am a 64 yr old liberal-pinko-commie and gently vocal-was an accountant working for a CPA firm for years here, very quiet publicly. With friends, we pushed for a Citizen Board for our police/community...it has, in fact, been set up as a toothless feel-good presentation by the local police, but we're going to work to change that. Our 'city' has 31,000; our county has 62,000..I've helped organize lots of other 'progressive' rallies, volunteer time with the county Democratic Party and all of that fuels my sense of hope. I listen to older activists and realize it's just a matter of being on the side of the most vulnerable, least powerful, most overlooked and undervalued folks that my activism here and now is about. It usually 'feels' like we're just a handful of progressives, but actually doing something is something I have to do for my own sanity.
And dance & eat chocolate.