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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]On Monday, police will release the footage showing Sonya Massey being shot in the face by police after calling 911 for help.

In a political environment that is so polarized, how will our nation's [b]politicians[/b] address this murder?[/quote]

I think it is for our judicial system to address this murder. Not for politicians. [/quote]

There should be legislation in place that problematic cops fired from one department, cannot be fired into another.

This would have prevented this murder.[/quote]
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We need a healthy and safe police force that protects all of us. [b]I’m White. I’ve never had to worry about calling the police [/b]and I say on every one of these threads that that should be a basic tenet of modern society, not a privilege. It’s pretty clear that some laws need to be passed around policing and that oversight needs to be moved from within the force to outside of it.

For example: the Washington Post ran an article a month or so ago about all the police officers who sexually abuse children who are entrusted to their care. It was disgusting. Read it and literally weep, so many children broken by officers in whom trust, whether implicit in the basic relationship between officer and citizens or explicit as in sometimes the police were supposed to be acting as mentors, had been placed.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/police-officers-child-sexual-abuse-in-america/?itid=mr_1[/quote]

Eh. I mean, I understand implicit bias—but I don’t think that’s as big of a thing as the media narrative makes it out to be. Like, being afraid of calling the police specifically because you’re black.

I’m white and I am somewhat wary of calling the police—because you never know what kind of officer you’re going to get. And there’s quite a bug culture of “shoot first ask questions later”. Pretty sure when they do police training they drill that into you by showing recruits the dashcam video of a deputy pulling someone over without drawing his gun and calmly engaging him, only to be shot and killed.

Being white doesn’t protect you; ask Christian Glass, Hunter Brittain, Justine Damond, etc.

I think there just needs to be a bigger change in police culture.

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NP - while I can understand your perspective, I think as a white person it’s inappropriate to dismiss the issue as media hype. I am white, but my husband is a non-black POC who grew up poor. Until I met him, I always took for granted that police, emergency rooms, etc were resources to use without a thought, He does not see the police as an ally or safe resource despite now being UMC in a safe suburb. He has explained to me that growing up, police were not their friends. Even now, seeing the difference in treatment that his family receives at hospitals or in interactions with officials, I can understand why they would not put their trust in them. I have had some of my privilege stripped away by marrying him (I now have an ethnic last name) - the treatment based on my name v in-person interaction is quite different - but I am still aware that his experience and mine differ. Something to consider[/quote]

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