"Masses of Minneapolis Police from all precincts, including SWAT and a State Patrol surveillance helicopter, swarmed a protest for the police killing of Tyre Nichols as it was about to start in SE Minneapolis in single digit temps. No officers were seen getting out of their vehicles & no arrests. Crowd dispersed."
The referendum to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and build some kind of public safety department in it's place was 46% in favor. It's not impossible. Hell, that's probably part of the reason the Democrats have been pushing pro-cop propaganda so hard; 2020 really did break a lot of people's belief in the police.
And yet, not only did nothing happen, but in fact the police are even more entrenched than they were before, with protests cracked down on even faster than they can coalesce. Activist leaders are all still in jail and their communities infiltrated by undercovers.
2020 was the exception here, a small fracture that nobody was expecting. That fracture, for the meantime, is completely gone.
"Expect nothing and you'll never be disappointed!"
Of course the public has a constituency for radical reform but people's opinion matters little when faced with raw power . Without proper organization police will never be abolished even if 99% of people favor it(it's also notable that it still wasn't a majority) . We've seen that over and over again in American politics alone . Policy's can be favored by the majority and they will not be passed no matter how much a liberals heart appear to bleed
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