We've seen that kind of racism and ugliness right here in these newsgroups - Google ignored and tolerated - for years.
We've also seen the ugliness in our police when we see how they interact with citizens, during arrests and especially when they shoot distressed or innocent people. And I guess we - the majority of us - have had enough.
What has happened as a result of George Floyd's killing has triggered a response of 'We're mad as hell and not going to take this anymore!' And the powers that be had better be listening, or we can react again - at elevated terms.
Our cops need to be re-trained. The need to put the emphasis on de-escalation of explosive or dangerous situations. Right now, they seem to put the emphasis on kill anything that might even threaten your feeling of security.
If our cops are so insecure in their own ability to handle citizens without strong-arming or shooting them, then they're not properly trained and should not be on our streets calling themselves police.
The best cops are those who know a dozen different ways to calm and to communicate with any agitated person. They don't make their judgments based on the colour of that person's skin or their ethnicity. The cops we see killing in the U.S. seem to have made a fun game of treating blacks like targets, not humans worthy of any respect.
In Canada, we have seen the same in the way they have treated agitated, scared or mentally disturbed people. Because they haven't been trained to treat them with de-escalation methods, they resort immediately to offensive moves. We're ending up with dead people who shouldn't have died.
If the police aren't re-trained pretty damned quickly, we're going to start seeing a citizenry that starts to hate their police and that hatred will translate into lack of respect and confrontations that will in turn lead to injuries or deaths.
Well-trained police will result in more confident police and fewer incidents of reactionary police using unreasonable or lethal force.
Bring in the best trainers from the UK. They seem to know what it's all about.
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Nine minutes of torture, two weeks of rage: Why George Floyd’s killing ignited a global powder keg
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2020/06/06/nine-minutes-of-torture-two-weeks-of-rage-why-george-floyds-killing-ignited-a-global-powder-keg.html
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