Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they’re still struggling with what happened
Five years after the Capitol riot, some of the police officers who fought off the rioters that day say they’re still struggling with what happened
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And if they bashed a minority protesting against oppression? Which let’s be honest, is the more likely outcome compared to once in a lifetime event.
Advocating for the police to beat up people is not a win.
The vast majority of protests and responses to protests in the USA are peaceful, with the George Floyd nationwide (and international) protests being some of the statistically most peaceful protests in the nation’s history.
We cannot tolerate the intolerant. We cannot be peaceful with the violent. That is why we need police, all of the issues you pointed out are because police are not held to a high standard of accountability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incidents_during_George_Floyd_protests
That is the biggest list I have ever seen on Wikipedia in my life.
There were over 10,000 protests and you found 140 problematic events, or a rate of 1.4% but likely much lower when you consider the problematic events probably happened during the same protests as others.
Read better next time, that’s 140 attacks against journalists. Not 140 attacks in total.
Alright then, one of us has to sit here and count every entry on that table.
The HTML says it contains 605 tr tags, so that would bring the percentage up to 6% for a upper limit.
Many of these events explicitly did lead to accountability for the officers and/or the department, including the City of Denver being asked to pay $14 Million in reparations for their use of force leading to a long string of internal investigations some of which are still open today and much stricter enforcement of their code of conduct.