Another thread should/could be started titled "Are the American protesters out of control?"
Very few people, if any, are saying that the cop who killed Floyd George should not have been arrested (as he was last week). That was a clear tragedy, and the four cops involved should stand trial. And they are.
And there are hundreds of example videos of other cops doing bad things that they absolutely shouldn't - beating up innocent folks, etc. All these should be condemned.
However, the idea put forth that policing in general should be done away with is pretty ridiculous to me.
Reformed? Yes. Do away with Qualified Immunity? Probably. Require body cams and other measures to reduce the ability of cops to lie about incidents? For sure.
But to have a city without agents meant to protect from and investigate crimes? Absurd.
During the riots, it's absolutely zero surprise to me that murderers (not cops, just civilian murderers) took advantage of the riots last weekend in Chicago. Two quotes from the Chicago Sun Times:
"While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961."
A reverend of a church in the south side is quoted as saying:
"'On Saturday and particularly Sunday, I heard people saying all over, ‘Hey, there’s no police anywhere, police ain’t doing nothing,’' Pfleger said."
here's the full story:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/8/21281998/chicago-violence-murder-history-homicide-police-crime
I am a strong advocate of 2A as well. But things will get much, much worse without police.
We need to eliminate police brutality, not police as an institution.