I have not seen news agencies try to pre-incite violence this much since CNN spent a full week trying to bait a shooter for the Joker movie.

That is true unfortunately.

Yeah but then you would have the issues that minorities farmers had when the Biden administration tried to give them special funding. The white farmers sued claiming the government can't discriminate towards one group or another and they won that case. I can see the same thing happening again

To be fair there are various ways to approach reparations. Doesn't have to be direct payment, it could also be done through broader societal investments in education, housing, ability to establish small business, etc

Hasn't it been like 3 weeks since the incident?

Just give it up already there should be more demand for school funding and housing instead.

I have too many thoughts, but the ones that come to mind include: complete retraining and reevaluating current policies that are in place; we need to have better community outreach programs that can handle non-violent incidents; and the most important thing is holding cops accountable. 

We really need to have a separate institution that holds police accountable for this shit. The biggest reason why this continues is because cops are not scared of repercussions. They have internal teams that investigate them but the public isnt privy to that information and bias/connections limit what punishmentis appropriate..

Once I saw that they fired AND charged all the cops involved, I knew I wouldn’t be watching that footage. It must be horrific.

He’s doing an awesome job of sending teachers and staff fleeing to other districts.

I would love to see concrete examples of the “awesome job” Leon is doing. Please, educate me!

Yep it's a great selling point when the kid whos parents co-signed and probably paying the rent for the "luxury" apartment can tell his or her friends I live near Harriot Tubman square. Mucho progressive points I guess which will be factored into the rental price by the developer

Yeah it’s open to the public again. There were several posts here on that last week. You can come in through Penn.

Probably because there's absolutely no way to justify what they did based on the video that I guess will be public later today. Because if there was the police department and their union would be the first one to make attempts

You’re not wrong, I would have liked to see a black leader with connections to Newark go up here too but I think this is a marketing tool more than anything else. Basically if they chose someone with Newark connections it wouldn’t get as much attention, especially outside of Newark, and they want stuff like this to add to the overall attention Newark is getting now as the city gentrifies rapidly.

School board election is in April. Hardly anyone votes so if you do vote in it, your vote will have a bigger impact.

It’s because they were immediately charged with murder.

Acab

Edit: to everyone downvoting me- get fucking real. The entire system of policing as we know it in the country was built on racism and if you knowingly sign up to participate in it and stand behind the blue wall of silence you’re complicit in the problem so yeah, ACAB.

It's terrible but I notice the lack of outrage in the media and on social media and other groups that came along with other police killings. I don't know if it's because it's not the usual race of the cops that kill or not but I didn't notice the same constant broadcast that I saw in other incidents over the years

Defund the police

But a lot of places claim they were an important part of the underground railroad the plaques and everything I saw in Delaware pretty much said it was an important part of the underground railroad. I'm just saying there was a missed opportunity to honor somebody who was born and raised in the city instead of going with a figure that's got multiple statues and plaques in different states. Aside from the fact that when you compare other statues in this park to the Tubman one it looks out of place

I think education, hiring standards, and retraining should be revamped in every state.

At least Newark was actually an important part of the Underground Railroad. https://sasn.rutgers.edu/news-events/news/black-church-stood-rutgers-newark-property-designated-national-historic-site-ties-underground-railroad

Its a terrible situation.

I'm not going to be able to watch the video. It sounds nightmarish.

It is just horrific and so sad.