And another killing, police shot and killed unarmed Black man who was driving away from them

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I have few answers. Many questions and likely at least one or two “hot takes” as the parlance goes these days.

I’m going to take a stab at getting closer to the meat of things in real time.

What could be more apt than bullet points?
(In no particular order)

• The killing of Black people is out of control.
  
• It’s a cancer eating away at this country in ways obvious and no so obvious.
  
• If you’re not already clear on it, it is a fact that you can be as innocent as a new born babe and still be targeted by police and abused.
  
• The flip side of that is (hot take #1) that does not make every use of force by law enforcement officers against Blacks a blow to justice.
  
• If you are engaged in criminal activity (About to stab someone, say.) you are not George Floyd or Trayvon Martin.
  (Selling cigarettes in front of the bodega? Crying eight year old “resisting”? Different kettles of fish.)
  
• That doesn’t mean you’ve suddenly got a bullseye on your forehead or have become a human piñata. You have gone from dog bites man to man pokes bear.

So how do we fix it?

• It MAY be a relatively small percentage swinging the clubs and pulling the triggers, but there’s no getting around it, silence equals complicity.
  
• The system is broken and the cancer runs deep.
  
• The old leadership, with few exceptions, has failed. It needs to GO. Virtually all of it.
  
• Lying. Cover ups. Musical chairs with criminal cops. Bone deep sentiments of ‘we’re at war’, ‘it’s us versus “them”’. Blue walls of silence. It has to come out root and stem.
  
• Police violence. Police murder. A generations long #metoo “moment”.

The political will to solve the problem continues to grow, but I’d have to say the tank is probably only half way full.

Feel free to add your own 3x5 cards to the cork board. Bring your own colored yarn, the pushpins are free.