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First Speaker

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4. A lot will happen, some good, some bad...

Sat Jul 9, 2016, 06:40 PM

Jul 2016

...I think it probably will be contingent upon events. I personally feel like I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop. If there's more shootings, more bloodshed, maybe an assassination, if the far right Tea Party/Limbaugh assholes continue to stoke racial fires...then nothing good will come of this. Nothing at all. If we're lucky enough to get a respite from the violence, then maybe some dialogue between the police and the minority populations will begin, and we can make *some* progress. I do know this--if White America continues to regard the police as police, and Black America keeps regarding the police as an army of occupation, this country is doomed.

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I think it will depend on the election gwheezie Jul 2016 #2

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A lot will happen, some good, some bad... First Speaker Jul 2016 #4

More jackbooted fascism. N/t roamer65 Jul 2016 #5

DPD is currently on lockdown SuperDutyTX Jul 2016 #6

I hate to give you the response that was my immediate reaction. annavictorious Jul 2016 #7

Police state, that way everyone is 'safe'. Rex Jul 2016 #8

Nothing Lithos Jul 2016 #9

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Insulting police officers in the days after five innocent ones were gunned down oberliner Jul 2016 #11

They are victims and at the same time WhiteTara Jul 2016 #12

They are only victims oberliner Jul 2016 #14

Police have been militarized since the 80's when they used tanks to knock down walls craigmatic Jul 2016 #13