This thread had the potential to discuss the forward-thinking government changes that will shift budgets away from police and toward community services, so police responding to a "disturbed person" call don't need to shoot him or her, instead, a social worker or psychiatric professional can respond and get them help (one example only). Youth-at-risk programs can be set up to give teens something interesting to do on those weekend late-nights (basketball, in particular) to keep them out of trouble. And so the arsenals of warfare equipment are sent back to the military and police learn neighborhood policing, walking through neighborhoods and getting to know the people they are protecting.

Those of you shouting from your soap boxes about decades-old "black power" movements and whatever the drivel is that WAV is spouting, are living in ignorance of what the last two weeks have been about, and apparently have no interest in acknowledging that while everyone was stuck in COVID-19 lockdown, they had the luxury to pay attention to the news of George Floyd's death and respond appropriately. With protest. Enough police violence is enough, and their over-response with the militaristic postures and tear gas and rubber bullets and flashbangs and more were illustrating WHY they should no longer be tolerated or trusted to "protect" the communities they putatively serve. A side issue are the white nationalist looters trying to turn it all into the mess that they in fact managed to create for a while, but their gig is up, they've been outed, and now they're probably back hiding at their cabins in the woods, surrounded by their AK-47s. (And it may occur to some of you that the white nationalists look an awful lot like many of those police. There's a reason for that.)

Get out of your comfort zone, read the news from reputable sources, turn off any of Rupert Murdoch's television or radio stations.

Trump is toast, and now what rational people need to fear is how he will strike out until he is actually escorted out of the White House. Why wait till January? I think they need to take him by surprise with the 25th Amendment because he is clearly unable and unwilling to do the job of President. He's the hotspot the racist political hurricane is feeding on right now.