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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
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I am not sure what any of this even means.
George Floyd was murdered with no good reason, but there were times in his life he did shit that called for a response from someone carrying a gun.
I've heard of keeping social workers around to send on calls for the mentally ill, which sounds nice, I guess, for bigger cities. But my suburb isn't keeping social workers around 24/7, and it seems the worst police abuses are in smaller cities? Plus, too often the mentally ill are armed, so I'm not sure a social worker is the answer.
The two most poignant moments I can recall on LT are 1 Fringey's accident, and 2 Adder posting during the George Floyd riots. He had a post about how he spent the night on his front porch holding a baseball bat. I have never felt more empathy for anyone on here (well maybe Slave for the whole paigs thing?). But if the mob had come to his home the bat would only have made things worse. I know the Twin Cities po-po was ignoring the riots, but in theory Adder needed a force of armed people those nights.
The answer has to be integrating police forces more and being more selective about whom is given a badge I think.
