You’re less likely to body slam someone to the ground when your moms might be in the same book club

April 2021

“I don’t think there’s any one change that we could make to police procedure, or equipment, or funding that would fix the entire problem of how cops treat black people. But a start would be fixing a problem outlined by Brooklyn Center mayor’s, Mike Elliott, in a press conference: none of the town’s police officers actually live in Brooklyn Center. It matters when you’re not policing your own community, when you’re an outsider, because then you’ve been sent in to enforce. You’re an occupying force. Because it’s human nature to treat people differently when you’re not from there. It’s harder to brutalize people when you live in the same community. You’re less likely to body slam someone to the ground when your moms might be in the same book club.” —Trevor Noah

https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html 

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