Yesterday people wrote meaningful remembrances.
Today I am asking: What’s changed?
One conviction. Almost a thousand more people killed by cops. Police still lying about deaths in custody.
After a few months of outrage and protest – what’s changed?
Why are armed, uniformed police still in charge of traffic stops?
Why are armed, uniformed police still in charge of dealing with the mentally ill?
Why has there been no discernible change in policing?
There is certainly more awareness today, among white people, that police treat Black people differently.
But after that horrible video (and how many other videos?), after those massive protests, after those demands for real change – shouldn’t we have done more than raise awareness?
Oh, that change is still needed, desperately.
I’m glad to see Trump gone from the White House, but that’s not the change I’m talking about. And that change, having a new president, is that going to change policing? Of course, of course, I know lots of CONTINUE READING: A year and a day | JD2718