That’s a really long headline, and it cuts off before the most important part. They could swap “killing” for “confronting,” and let the readers get the details for themselves.
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When we complain about headlines getting cut off, they literally say “This seems fine and correct to me”
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Good.
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Again:
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Not quite ‘the storming of the Bastille,’ but we’re getting there.
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White supremacy is bipartisan.
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that’s not true in the way it implies
city councils are often constrained by contracts, state law, and federal law
can they do more? yes, without a doubt. as far as i know though, their biggest tool is defunding the police. that concept is new(ish) to most people, and many people still aren’t sure that’s the right thing to do: even people out protesting.
there are many, many cases of local cops getting fired and reinstated because cities don’t have as much control they should
there’s got to be changes at all levels for it to work
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I look at Portland and Seattle, though, and they could just starve the existing police departments of funding and redistribute it to the other functions that replace them - criminal investigations, animal control, community outreach & services, mental health crisis support, etc.
There’s also the property: buildings and equipment. That all belongs to the city. Not the police. Have fun doing your job without a building to do it from, or equipment to do it with.
The cities have the power; they lack the will to use it.
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There’s also the point that most of those systems providing resistance to change were constructed either by or with the collusion of Democrats. None of this began with Trump.
Biden was the architect of mass incarceration. Clinton fortified the border. Obama militarised the police.
White supremacy is bipartisan.
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how exactly did these contracts become more powerful than the city councils
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And when it comes down to it, any contract can be broken with enough money. Go to court, fight the contract, and then settle for some amount of money. If, you know, justice matters at all. Odds are the settlement would be less than the yearly cost of paying out wrongful death settlements.
Free yourself from the police and their unions, and rebuild with something better.
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it costs zero dollars to not sign the fucking thing in the first place
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my point was just that holding individual cops responsible is not something that cities really can do well, and that’s not - like you say - where their power is
their power isn’t - unfortunately - in “reining in” violent cops, it’s shrinking the pool of cops available, and yeah - what tasks cops are used for [ edit: though in some places, that might be up to state legislatures to decide. ]
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https://twitter.com/orleans_hub/status/1298598929144176640
“Motorcycles will go first, muscle/classic cars, cars and pick-up trucks, truckers with rigs,” according to the event post on Facebook. “This is a non-political event but feel free to decorate your vehicles to show your support of our law enforcement.”
LOLOLOL LMAO 
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