It was the first time in Minnesota that it happened.

I was relieved to hear the verdict, but FFS, a 13 yo black girl was killed by cops in the past week, and she was the one who called the cops in the first place.

That's on top of the 2 "Oops. Thought is was my tazer." shootings in the past month.

It's still a rate of about 1 black person killed by a cop every 3 days in the US over the past year, so it's not like a huge amount of progress is being made.


We need more (peaceful) protests. We need this to keep being raged at. We need to address the absolute shitstorm that is the US view on crime and punishment as a whole. The system is literally designed to strip the right to vote by black Americans by turning black culture into felony offenses. It's designed to keep poor people poor and to marginalize certain groups. It's designed to isolate those poor and marginalized people from the greater society and make it nearly impossible for them to re-enter.

I mean: What is it about Americans that makes us need to imprison such a vast swath of our people? Is it our freedom? Do we really believe in freedom? Do we?