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> Do we really want companies refusing to service areas because the police in those areas are too violent? This seems crazy to me, basically accepting and work
by privong 11y ago
> Do we really want companies refusing to service areas because the police in those areas are too violent? This seems crazy to me, basically accepting and working around the problem instead of fixing it.
On the contrary, I think that would be a good way to address the problem. I imagine you'd get more pressure from the community if customers called up to order and were told, "sorry, we don't deliver to your neighborhood because the police have been known to assault our delivery couriers."
- mikeash 11y agoThis isn't a case where the police are attacking couriers and leaving everybody else alone. This stuff affects everybody (or at least everybody who looks a certain way). If frequent beatings by the police don't create sufficient community pressure, I hardly see how being cut out from some delivery services is going to tip the balance.
- privong 11y ago> If frequent beatings by the police don't create sufficient community pressure, I hardly see how being cut out from some delivery services is going to tip the balance. It depends on how much of the local population the frequent beatings affect. If it's only directly affecting a marginalized portion of the population, the rest might not notice. The point of this protest would be to reach additional people, if it increases the fraction of the population that's affected (directly or indirectly), it might just tip the balance.