Police officers and White vigilantes have been basically given the freedom to rein terrorist attacks on Black individuals, Black families, Black communities, and Black businesses, as revealed in The New York Times and CBS News.
The phrase “law and order” in effect means “shut the protesters down,” but it is significant that “protesters” only applies, in the mind of many, to Black people and their allies, fighting for racial justice and against police brutality.
They are spinning it to mean that people want police departments completely abolished (as indeed some do), and purposely stepping around the suggestion that “defund” the police more accurately means recycling some of the money given to police departments into communities which exhibit higher crime rates because of poverty and neglect, as noted by The New York Times.
While the police use the sentiment of being in fear for their lives, the real truth of the matter is that Black, Brown and poor people are in fear of their lives on a daily basis.
Although it is not wise to do it, Black people run from police because the raw and unsupervised power of police is known.
