Everyone wants public safety. What we have isn’t it. Setting up armed groups to roam the streets in search of traffic violations in order to find some imaginary worse crime leads to this.

Police forces across this country are rooted in white supremacy and are also overly militarized and train and exist in an institution that primes them to see Black people as a threat to be eliminated.

No one can argue a traffic violation should carry a death sentence. If and until there is true police reform, meaning use of force is the last recourse, not the first, then unnecessary killings will keep happening.

And what some want to pass off as political discourse makes it worse. Rather than treat others with a certain degree of respect, their norm is attempts at erasure and threats. Who passes legislation called "stand your ground" and “anti-woke?” We should be teaching acceptance and deescalation of conflict.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23574206/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-police