> Instead of having a unifying and inclusive movement for police reform we got a politically weaponized racially polarizing movement. Yep. Watching (unarmed, w

> Instead of having a unifying and inclusive movement for police reform we got a politically weaponized racially polarizing movement. Yep. Watching (unarmed, white) Daniel Shaver weeping and begging for his life as he crawled on his hands and knees down the hallway before officer Philip Brailsford executed him with a spray of bullets — that was as clear-cut a case as you could get that the police in many districts are NOT policing their own as much as they should. In many ways, there is a straight line from Brailsford to Chauvin: a cop with lots of citizen complaints and a bad attitude ends up killing someone who didn’t need to die. Race, even when it is a factor, is an unnecessary distraction from the bigger picture.