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Chokeholds were also banned by the NYPD since 1993, decades before Daniel Pantaleo used one to murder Eric Garner. Policies to improve the police’s war on us w
by jakelazaroff 6y ago
Chokeholds were also banned by the NYPD since 1993, decades before Daniel Pantaleo used one to murder Eric Garner.
Policies to improve the police’s war on us will be wholly ineffective. We need drastic changes, such as what it looks like Minneapolis is poised to do.
- ashtonkem 6y agoIt is stunning at how effective the crackdowns have been at radicalizing the population against the police. Thoughts that were the absolute unthinkable left edge of political discourse are now policy in one city within a week. That’s lightning fast.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoIt’s true. I tend to be on that far left edge of political discourse, but had you asked me three weeks ago I would have bet a lot of money against the Overton window shifting so much and so quickly.