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One horror at a time is too much to ask for
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.
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.