re: This problem affects us all. PDs need accountability. Remember Daniel Shaver.

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You are looking at it backwards the primary desire is not to insure or increase punishment it is to prevent the deaths in the first place. I don't want Shaver's murdering cop doing life, I want Shaver alive and having been brought to justice in the courts for any crimes he may have committed.

I understand why people are questioning why BLM wasn't more inclusive and why didn't Shaver get more attention, the answer is pretty simple: White folks just don't care.

The majority of white people (myself included) tend to be perfectly happy about the status quo. Most of us here saw and discussed Shaver but we didn't do anything about it. I sat here on my computer and railed about it being the most horrific thing I have seen but I didn't do shite. In my bubble, I could NEVER see myself in the position Shaver was in. As fricked up as it was it wasn't ever going to be me and I am almost certainly correct. Black people have a different status quo, I have never once thought during a traffic stop "I wish I was black".

Like it or not white people have the power to reform the police system and we have avoided doing it because status quo is easy and the Shaver's are few and far between.

Nobody is perfect in this nor is anyone 100% wrong but as a whole we can do better.

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