Derek Chauvin Found Guilty
 

Thoughts?

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I think we need more accountability in our system and this is the first step. I think there will never be justice, but accountability is the first step of many that need to be taken so that this man did not die in vein. This does not erase the fact that many are still dying, like the victim in Ohio who was trying to ask for help, but was shot multiple times by "the good guys." Proper training needs to be done and enforced. And not everything warrants reaching for your gun first. But the best thing we can do as a civilian is to keep educating ourselves and listening to the black community to see what they live and not what we want to see because it's not happening to us.

Defund police.

shitty human being abused power and kept a guy suffocated just cause he doesn't want to do what people around him were telling him to do (take his knee of the guy). now he'll be suffocating too, on Purple Passion's bbc

Having friends who work in corrections/are police officers themselves, the part I hate most is this is a cumulation of bad training and a "vocal minority". I agree the police have too much money for sure but we need to shift their focus rather than remove them. More training, less deadly force available, more training, better personality screening, MORE TRAINING.

taser taser taser! HOW CAN YOU NOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE IN WEIGHT BETWEEN THOSE TWO OBJECTS! ALSO ONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON YOUR DOMINANT SIDE AND THE OTHER NON! THIS IS NOT HARD!

When you don’t pay police well, they are more susceptible to corruption, so I don’t agree with removing money; I think rather that what is needed is, as you say, more investment in training, as well as direct oversight by an organization not under the same chain of command or on the same payroll, thus less likely to let things slide.

Well then pay them as warranted. Cops should never go in with a tenure mentality, this puts them in an invincible state. I am for reform, which means move the budget around. Put more money into training and stop pushing our police into a military state. Countries that do that are scary and who I thought we as Americans look down on. We need to do something before this happens.