Re: this...whether this works — bc focusing on “police training” tends to get you the same outcomes albeit with slightly different procedures and protocols — it’s important to underline how much the police are often enforcing/institutionalizing the will of an antiblack public. https://twitter.com/SaraLibby/status/1265376866317119488

the incident in Central Park is a legible example, but it’s more broad-based + legitimized than that. The same racist logic is clear if you spend five mins on @Nextdoor or look at patterns of 911 calls when white people gentrify Black neighborhoods. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/gentrification-complaints-311-new-york

Black people have random and unnecessary contact with the police because white people want it that way.

The police have broad discretion to use violence in “pacification” of Black people in public spaces —up to and including killing people — because it makes it possible to achieve the things that white people *who are not police* want.

the logic is so deeply embedded that after people saw the video of that person threaten another person with the brutality of the police and the crim justice system...people responded by saying they wanted her to be “arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

in other words, “this historically racist, violent institution is bad...unless it is being deployed in the name of some social outcome that I want.”

these are people who would *never* RT #notallcops yet are ironically very much invested in that same ways of thinking.

You can’t invoke the police or the justice system and think you can control or mitigate what happens after that.

But i think it underlines that the only ways we can conceptualize what justice might look like is if it is somehow dispensed or given legitimacy by the police.