I mean, personally, I too want to only reform and not defund or abolish. We don’t need to get rid of the police. We just need to put a softer face on the continued racial brutality they inflict on our communities.

Their point is that they’re comfortable with racial brutality by the police as long as they can go back to having brunch comfortably.

That would require those democrats to actually want to reform the police, tho.

Many of which are controlled by Democrats, who *also* don’t want to defund the police.

When has he shown you that?

Picking a cop as your VP in this moment would be monumentally stupid, and it would be a spot-on Biden move.

Who cares what Harris thinks about defunding the police? She’s a cop

They’ve already called Biden a socialist. Biden, the senator from MBNA. FOH with your bad-faith messaging shit.

Well, that probably won’t help. Might not even help to talk to George Floyd’s family.

Especially when they’re voting for a candidate that expressly said he has no empathy for them.

That’s Val Kilmer

Exactly, every election is the most important ever. If you just hold your nose this one election, I promise we’ll address meaningful reform next cycle. Rinse, repeat forever.

I mean, he’s free to show his ass, but also he’s free to be fired for it.

Getting the cops to kneel is a PR stunt.

>They’re an attempt by a few sympathetic (or strategic) cops to set themselves apart from the overwhelming numbers of cops, sheriffs, Natl guardsmen behaving atrociously.

Riot is the language of the unheard. I won’t tell them to be quiet. I won’t tell them to wait for reforms.

I see, so you’re just a “respectability politics” person. I can disregard you just the same.

>I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present…

Which completely negates the idea that she owns him.

That’s liberalism for you, man