It's kind of moronic to think that black people don't want their neighborhoods policed. They just want them policed even handedly and fairly. They want good schools, and strong families, and good jobs, too.
I would agree with you. I am just quoting what was written in the article, which if true, I find ironic. I mean after all, he was for the divestment of police in his area and around the country.
I wouldn't trust Fox News to fairly present the story. Divestment of police doesn't mean no police. It means get rid of the current police. I've never seen BLM say they want no police.
http://blacklivesmatter.com/11-major-misconceptions-about-the-black-lives-matter-movement/ (Misconceptions) 1. The movement doesn’t care about black-on-black crime. The idea that black-on-black crime is not a significant political conversation among black people is patently false. In Chicago, long maligned for its high rates of intraracial murder, members of the community created the Violence Interrupters to disrupt violent altercations before they escalate. However, those who insist on talking about black-on-black crime frequently fail to acknowledge that most crime is intraracial. ... 3. The movement has no agenda. Many believe the Black Lives Matter movement has no agenda — other than yelling and protesting and disrupting the lives of white people. This is also false. Since the earliest days of the movement in Ferguson, groups like the Organization for Black Struggle, the Black Lives Matter network, and others have made both clear and public a list of demands. Those demands include swift and transparent legal investigation of all police shootings of black people; official governmental tracking of the number of citizens killed by police, disaggregated by race; the demilitarization of local police forces; and community accountability mechanisms for rogue police officers. Some proposals like the recently launched Campaign Zero by a group of Ferguson activists call for body cameras on every police officer.
For the good of the entire country, the police need to be demilitarized across the board, and demonetized. It seems to me that it's a HUGE conflict of interest when the police budget is directly affected by how many tickets they write or how many people they arrest. There shouldn't be an incentive to go out and arrest more people. This is what has led us to the predicament that we're currently in.
Look man, I don't care. I am just pointing out what is reported by two different news outlets. The guy didn't want police and now all of the sudden does because he was affected by crime. It's typical story with these types of people.
I don't see where anyone can legitimately claim he didn't want police. That's why I commented as I did. I find much of Fox reporting to be a farce. Some of it is fine, but this ain't it.
This would have to coincide with the cessation of the so-called "War on Drugs." Good luck with that. Also with the threat of terrorism looming large in people's minds, it's just not going to happen in any kind of meaningful way.
Case-in-mother-fucking-point. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/nypd-seizes-18-000-during-pocketknife-arrest-9106499 They arrested this dude for having a pocket knife.... and took his $18k as well.
