That may or may not be true and is worth exploring more. Although as another poster points out, this is a vastly different argument than saying as the article d

That may or may not be true and is worth exploring more. Although as another poster points out, this is a vastly different argument than saying as the article does: >As the surge in violence has become less theoretical to white, middle class residents, Oakland’s mayor has been afforded the political space to push to restore the funds that were cut from the police budget. Which seems to be to be a misunderstanding of consensus reality