We've seen that kind of racism and ugliness right here in these newsgroups -   
   Google ignored and tolerated - for years.     
      
   We've also seen the ugliness in our police when we see how they interact with   
   citizens, during arrests and especially when they shoot distressed or innocent   
   people.  And I guess we - the majority of us - have had enough.   
      
   What has happened as a result of George Floyd's killing has triggered a   
   response of 'We're mad as hell and not going to take this anymore!'  And the   
   powers that be had better be listening, or we can react again -  at elevated   
   terms.   
      
   Our cops need to be re-trained.  The need to put the emphasis on de-escalation   
   of explosive or dangerous situations.  Right now, they seem to put the   
   emphasis on kill anything that might even threaten your feeling of security.   
      
   If our cops are so insecure in their own ability to handle citizens without   
   strong-arming or shooting them, then they're not properly trained and should   
   not be on our streets calling themselves police.     
      
   The best cops are those who know a dozen different ways to calm and to   
   communicate with any agitated person.  They don't make their judgments based   
   on the colour of that person's skin or their ethnicity.  The cops we see   
   killing in the U.S. seem to have    
   made a fun game of treating blacks like targets, not humans worthy of any   
   respect.     
      
   In Canada, we have seen the same in the way they have treated agitated, scared   
   or mentally disturbed people.  Because they haven't been trained to treat them   
   with de-escalation methods, they resort immediately to offensive moves.  We're   
   ending up with    
   dead people who shouldn't have died.   
      
   If the police aren't re-trained pretty damned quickly, we're going to start   
   seeing a citizenry that starts to hate their police and that hatred will   
   translate into lack of respect and confrontations that will in turn lead to   
   injuries or deaths.   
      
   Well-trained police will result in more confident police and fewer incidents   
   of reactionary police using unreasonable or lethal force.   
      
   Bring in the best trainers from the UK.  They seem to know what it's all about.   
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   Nine minutes of torture, two weeks of rage: Why George Floyd’s killing   
   ignited a global powder keg   
      
   https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2020/06/06/nine-minutes-of-to   
   ture-two-weeks-of-rage-why-george-floyds-killing-ignited-a-globa   
   -powder-keg.html   
      
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