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Wonkette has the right of it: The Problem With Police Reform Is That Police Already Know It's Bad To Beat People To Death https://www.wonkette.com/tyre-nichols-police-reform
The Problem With Police Reform Is That Police Already Know It's Bad To Beat People To Death

Tyre Nichols is dead. Someone else will be next.

Wonkette
Jan 29, 2023 at 4:23amLinky
Show threadMasto.poetryJan 29, 2023

@kcarruthers

its way past time to disarm, defund and redirect policing to a totally different way of thinking of public safety. killing 1000+ Americans EVERY year, year in, year out, when comparable police forces kill a dozen of less is a clear indicator that what we do is not public safety, but public state sanctioned terror

Show threadfulanigirl has movedJan 29, 2023
@kcarruthers Nailed it right on the head. Exactly as the authors explains it. Minneapolis police were the same. The received extensive training prior to the Floyd murder. The training did not stop them from murdering him.
Show thread@Lee_in_IowaJan 29, 2023
@fulanigirl @kcarruthers Ending "qualified immunity" would make a huge difference, as would a federal investigative panel (vs local ones) & real murder charges being brought. Lastly, regular drug testing of police for steroids & other drugs is a necessity.
Show threadfulanigirl has movedJan 30, 2023
@Lee_in_Iowa @kcarruthers OK..these are in two of the categories I'll be discussing.
Show threadDavid AlpertJan 30, 2023
@kcarruthers @20002ist Does the existence of these previous reform rules make it easier to prosecute the officers? Because as I understand it, qualified immunity says unless officers were explicitly told “don’t beat people to death” then they could argue “we weren’t told that” and get away with it.
Show threadDavid AlpertJan 30, 2023
@20002ist @kcarruthers Here, there were rules to “Require officers to give a verbal warning in all situations before using deadly force” and “Require officers to intervene and stop excessive force used by other officers.” I wonder if that helps here, since there were clear rules it appears they ignored. Is that right or no, I wonder?