I don't know who needs to hear this, but being a #centrist in our current political climate doesn't make you intellectually or morally superior. It doesn't make you someone who transcends partisanship with compromise and meeting in the middle. 1/3
It makes you someone who is asking people -- particularly marginalized people -- to find common ground with those who seek to do them harm. 2/3
If you need me to spell out what kind of harm, by whom, and to whom, then you don't understand both sides nearly enough to know what you're in the center of, never mind make any statements about who should be meeting whom in the middle. 3/3
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Minneapolis has, among other responses to the Floyd murder, implemented requirements for officers to intervene and report other officers for violations, excessive force, etc.
It's a good start. It is.
But it's not going to accomplish a damn thing. /1
Mandatory intervention/reporting won't do anything until other major systemic problems are resolved.
The police have a code of silence comparable to omerta. It's well-known that cops don't rat out cops because snitches get stitches.
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I have literally heard with my own ears cops telling each other this, often as a warning to one who's considering reporting a problem. Sometimes it's a threat. Sometimes it's a concerned buddy saying, "bro, ask yourself if it's worth what's going to come your way."
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