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and Brown Lives Matter. And White Intersex College Student Lives Matter.
There were two more heartbreaking police shootings in the past week. I'm not going to post links to stories because that's not my shtick. The stories won't be hard to find in one is so inclined. Both involving people who suffered from mental illness, in one case a man who was deaf and mute. Neither victim seems to have had a criminal record or violent history.
Look, we can spend our time with these ridiculous arguments that amount to nothing more that racial rhetoric and finger pointing. We can continue with the, "Liberals are just blah, blah, blah...CHICAGO!" "Well, you conservatives are all just this and that...." We can continue to, as mooch would say, suck our own c*cks. Or we can address the real elephant in the room. And that is the training standards, and the vetting process, of police officers in this country. There are many officers who go out and do wonderful jobs everyday. The majority of them, in fact, but there are far too many who aren't living up to the standards of a profession that carries that kind of responsibility. If the amount of patients dying in surgery spiked to epidemic levels, we wouldn't say, "...but what about all the doctors that aren't killing people." We would identify the problem. There is a real problem. And we need to address it.
R.I.P. #94 MARSHAWN KNEELAND - DC4L
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