One horror at a time is too much to ask for

[sabotabby]

TW: Police brutality, anti-Black racism
 
I don't expect that we'll see anything close to justice even with Derek Chauvin's arrest, but it's still gratifying to see. I can't imagine the kind of bravery it took activists to venture out during a pandemic, with the elected leader of their country threatening to murder them in the streets. I certainly don't have that kind of courage.

As I was saying to a friend on FB, it's not that I actually expect this pig to rot in jail, much as right now I'm relishing in the mental image of him being perp-walked. It's a matter of de-incentivizing police brutality. Right now, the consequences for cops murdering people are essentially zero, unless maybe the cop is a POC and the victim is white. Therefore, there is no incentive to not murder. The more the cost of police brutality is raised, the less widespread it will become. There are many ways to de-incentivize murder, which I won't go into on a public blog, save to say that Peter Watts has written a rather clinical analysis of one of them. Arrest is another.

Anyway, I don't think they will, but I hope they throw the book at him. And my heart goes out to the people of Minneapolis, and Black people everywhere who don't even get a break from this endless bullshit for a global pandemic.

Meanwhile, lest Canadians feel smug, a young woman experiencing a mental health crisis, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, was tossed off a balcony by the cops and killed. Her mom had called them in the hopes of getting her escorted to somewhere she could be treated. She joins a sad list of Black, Indigenous, and racialized people killed by Canadian cops in recent years.

Rest In Power, George and Regis. Black Lives Matter.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

*clings to you*

[sabotabby]

*hugs you tightly*

[kore]

//hugs you too

[kore]

As I was saying to a friend on FB, it's not that I actually expect this pig to rot in jail, much as right now I'm relishing in the mental image of him being perp-walked. It's a matter of de-incentivizing police brutality. Right now, the consequences for cops murdering people are essentially zero, unless maybe the cop is a POC and the victim is white. Therefore, there is no incentive to not murder. The more the cost of police brutality is raised, the less widespread it will become. There are many ways to de-incentivize murder, which I won't go into on a public blog, save to say that Peter Watts has written a rather clinical analysis of one of them. Arrest is another.

GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING YES.

I was just saying to minoanmiss, I just woke up and just got the news and -- there was this kind of incredulous triumph IMMEDIATELY replaced with blinding rage of, That's not fucking enough. (Inevitable question, what would be enough? Not anything I could type even in semi public.)

[sabotabby]

(Inevitable question, what would be enough? Not anything I could type even in semi public.)

This.

[kore]

can't type much rn anyway but I guess my first idea would be, GET THE FUCKING NATIONAL GUARD OUT OF THERE. or have them do shit like ride along iwth fire crews or protect residential (BLACK) areas and hospitals. I can say, even as a weenie pacifist type, all the sight of thugs in riot gear advancing on you who won't listen to you and try to shove you backwards does is it makes people scared and angry, therefore defiant. even weenie pacifist types.

STILL motherfucking amazed they actually even charged the fucker. They should ALL be charged, fired, banned from ever being cops again, there should be an imediate giant investigation and reorganization with pblic hearings and actual efforts to combat institutional racism. But I don't know if that will ever ever happn in this country even without "but there's a pandemic."

[smhwpf]

Amen.

I hope the uprisings we are seeing across the US will provide some sort of shock to the system. I don't expect fundamental change - but maybe a bit more urgency in preventing cops from murdering people. If the criminal justice system will not impose consequences for police brutality, perhaps the possibility of having your precinct burned down will give some pause for thought.

[sabotabby]

I saw a good tweet last night where someone was talking about raising the costs, and said something to the effect of, "You want to shoot people? It'll cost you two Targets and a CVS." Of course cops don't care much about that as they don't live in the neighbourhoods where rioting happens, but the precinct is a different story.