Police should not be allowed to make mistakes that end up killing people. They should not be able to make lethal mistakes. You don’t get to say oops I accidentally fired my glock instead of my taser after 26 years on the job. It’s disgusting, it hurts, it is unacceptable.
If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country.
During the four years of the Civil War, the confederates never got closer to Washington than Fort Stevens. Until today, when insurrectionist supporters of @realDonaldTrump paraded through the U.S. Capitol Building carrying the Confederate battle flag.