This is Sheriff Chris Swanson who lead the Flint township police in taking off their helmets, putting down their batons and walked with protesters. There are so many amazing police that put their lives on the line every day protecting their communities and doing everything they can to make this world a better place. For those dismissing bad cops as “bad apples” keep in mind the term originates from the phrase “Just one bad apple spoils the barrel.” These bad apples are being protected by a system that enables them. WE need reforms that weed out those giving our brothers and sisters in blue a bad name🙏🏼🖤💙🤍💛❤️

Doctors and nurses need licenses to practice medicine, lawyers need a license to practice law, why aren’t our police officers required to be licensed to enforce the law? As of now a police officer can resign before being disciplined for misconduct and simply move to a new department to avoid being held accountable. We need to require all who enforce the law to be licensed to do so and for that license to be revoked in the case of malpractice. Police reforms aren’t an attack against the police, it’s a way to help our police departments perform to a higher standard and make our communities safer!

This isn’t Us against Them , this is WE need reform! Good cops are being punished and ostracized for coming forward - The social and professional pressure to look the other way is hurting our policing community. The police form an understandably close knit community bonded by common experiences. It’d be a conflict of interest for a detective to investigate a friend in the civilian community - when internal affairs is part of the police department, how can we expect investigators to be impartial? It’s an unreasonable expectation, we ALL need outside oversight of police for all our benefit!

We all have the same rights as the people with the least rights in this country. Anything more than that is a given privilege. I don’t want to be given privileges that can be taken away! I want rights, fuck privilege!

Would it be acceptable to audit yourself if accused of tax evasion? Would you be allowed to investigate yourself if accused of murder? The police policing themselves is a conflict of interest and proven ineffective! We need our police departments being held accountable by outside oversight now!

#blackoutTuesday no stream or new content this week 🙏🏼❤️ this isn’t a time to entertain ourselves or seek distraction. It’s a time to focus on what’s important. We need to demand justice, reform of systemic disfunction, and police accountability. Police cannot police themselves, we need independent oversight of our police departments now!

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Regardless of your race this image should outrage you. This is a human rights issue, citizens should not be treated this way by the people we pay taxes to protect and serve us - especially because it took civilian videos to expose the wrongdoing. Where are the police car videos? Where’s the police body cam videos? How many other times has this happened when there wasn’t a fellow civilian there to film? This is a violation of trust that may never be mended. I have close friends who are amazing cops and I’m sure they are just as horrified at this atrocity - The individuals behind George Floyd’s death need to be tried and convicted of murder. WE need to address the police’s systemic willful ignorance to the abuses of the power we give them. Self regulation isn’t working, we need outside unbiased parties overseeing the police and holding them accountable for the benefit of us all!!

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