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Originally Posted by cuervo72
The thing is though, what are you protesting in the case of the 4-year old? Who do you want to take action? Whose attention are you trying do draw, and what is the desired result?
So...are you protesting the killers? If you are, why do they care? What is going to make them change their behavior? Everybody knows that people are dying in Chicago. The media knows about it, politicians know about it. Cops know about it, the community knows about it. This isn't new information. I'm not sure what a protest does here, whose behavior is going to change. Those doing the killings don't care. They're immune to political pressure.
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If I lived in a neighborhood
where 9 year olds are being executed in alleys, I would want more police. I would want them to be more aggressive. I would want them to be stopping gangbangers and frisking them. I would want more jails and tougher sentences for things like illegal firearm possession. My goal would be to remove the cancer from my neighborhood that is holding everything back.
Nothing changes until that element is removed from those neighborhoods. It doesn't matter how much you pump into schools, how much you pump into community programs, into job training. As long as the gangs run those communities, they will take down everyone inside it.
So I guess what I'm saying is the thing I'd be protesting for is the exact opposite of what they are protesting. BLM has made gains in the city. They got the ACLU to work with the police to implement protocols for every street stop. They have gotten cops to be less proactive. Shootings have skyrocketed since those things have been implemented, but the safety of their community has never been a goal of theirs.