If I was running this movement, there would have been some things done differently.
Number 1
Inclusion
Daniel Shaver is just as much a victim as George Floyd.
Police brutality happens to people of all cultures except one. Make it about we, not me.
Everybody get on board. Seeing all different cultures out together would make them pee their pants.
Easy day.
Number 2
Control.
Looting delegitimizes the message. The kind of control NOI used to scare the ■■■■ out of the powers that be. Everybody, regardless of culture, is here for one reason. Need to have some security.
Number 3
Plan
Have to have a viable plan for what happens when the changes come. Don’t let the pols spend a year “beginning the discussion” or dictating how it’s going to go. Law and Order Plan
Number 4
Focus
The state is the problem. Can’t tear everything up. The police station was a good target, everything else not so much. Do one station. If that isn’t enough, do another station.
Why should the looters care? They got their free stuff. The rest are left to pick up the pieces. Rinse and repeat.
Good luck with that when libs are in charge.
Sorry you feel that way. I have to wonder how many victims of crime will never see justice because the police station or stations had evidence destroyed.
This should be a different movement. Maybe combine BLM with another group who focuses on polic brutality as a whole? This idea sounds good just needs to be in collaboration with BLM. No need for them to change their message right now.
Won’t happen. Civil Right Movement had their violence as well. It would be nice if you could control every.single.person protesting but you can’t.
Agreed. BLM has very high level one but I am curious about the details.
Agreed. But you can’t control all the opportunists.
They are focused on a very specific problem. Police brutality and Justice system bias against black people. That is their mission.
When they are ready to expand it, I hope they do! But they shouldn’t let their message be changed due to political pressure from people on the right who don’t even care about their current movement.
Not if you isolate them and let the police do their jobs. Hell, monitor the police for brutality while they arrest them. You can’t say what would happen, BLM hasn’t tried.