Rayshard Brooks' funeral was yesterday. If George Floyd's death was the period at the end of an all-too-long sentence about police brutality, Brooks' death was in that space before the next sentence begins.

Reverend Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of the late civil rights leader and CEO of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, also spoke at the service.

"We really should not be here today, this should not have happened to Rayshard," King said Tuesday. She called for police reform so that officers cannot "continue to hide behind badges" when using deadly force.

This is where cities and states need to step up into the space provided and enact legislation that shifts all of the dollars going to police into community programs intended to help people the police have never been equipped to work with. And to take away all of that militaristic hardware and firepower from the hands of an under-educated and under-trained group who, many of them, fancy themselves some kind of urban police warriors.