“If you're hoping for police reform, diversity, fine, sure. But it can't end there. You're going to have to go much further.”
You can be very cynical here and say that they’re throwing themselves at the mercy of the public square—that they wanted to head off any potential protests, to at least keep the temperature down in the city. Maybe that move was successful, maybe it wasn’t. There’s still a long way to go. But yeah, absolutely, I think they wanted to give themselves some time to get into position and come up with an emergency plan to deal with the fallout.
What I always worry about in these instances is that there’s this initial outrage and shock, and then the officers get charged, and then people get a chance to retreat into their corners. And then the police get more defensive because the public is rightly outraged at them and is asking them to investigate themselves, to reform themselves, to show more public contrition. And they eventually get really upset, and they close their ranks.
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