Thread by @JohnFPfaff

This is why I keep saying we have NO idea where policing reform is heading.

The homicide/shooting surge in 2020/21 put reforms on the defensive.

But a video of heavily armed cops arresting parents while refusing to save children as unarmed teachers sacrificed themselves?

https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1529826104164462592

I know there is a sense that “nothing after Sandy Hook = nothing ever.” But that’s… an assumption. It MAY be true, but we have no data.

And here—we have video, and video arriving under a different underlying politics-of-crime.

Maybe nothing will come of this. But many Black men were murdered by police before George Floyd—yet his murder was ultimately a match that caught. (Of course, for some reason the others didn’t; it’s all so hard, if not impossible, to predict.)

There’s been a flood of reinforcing events: the Taiwanese churchgoers who had to subdue the shooter on their own, the Buffalo retired police officer who couldn’t kill the attacker, now the Uvalde cops fighting parents.

Politics built on sensationalism seem … unstable.

Anyway, I know Twitter isn’t real life, but I feel like there is a tone of systemic distrust in policing #onhere that is … new, and from unexpected sources.