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What is the objective reason they should be protesting?

>>kyrra+(OP)
Wide scale police brutality and a lack of accountability or change over 30 years+. Rodney King. Ferguson. The countless names and incidents in between. In my hometown, there was a young black man shot 17 times in the back that sparked local protests just like these where tear gas was also deployed. That was 15 years ago now. This story has looked the same and nothing has changed, and we are finally seeing it boil over at a national level.

Look at some of the efforts by this organization, who existed before Trump even was on the radar, to understand: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/#vision

>>adjkan+14
A nit: I think it's safe to say the brutality and lack of accountability has been baked into the system from the start. It's only recently that we've been able to record and share it.

>>pstuar+Wb
100% agreed, I tried to highlight that with the + but I think this nit is helpful and will hopefully flag this for people who might not think back to that type of history, like how sheriffs were originally created to track down runaway slaves. Perhaps this showing of true colors is just underscoring their original purpose and how little the system and culture within it has changed.

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-a...

>>pstuar+Wb
I grew up with a guy who was murdered by cops because he.... woke up when they confronted him about why he was sleeping behind the wheel of his car. His kids have been growing up without a father or his income. Death by cop in Mississippi isn't going to win you any civil cases.