\n\u201cThroughout the civil rights era, massive non-violent civil disobedience campaigns were matched with massive riots. The most famous of these was the Watts rebellion of 1965 but they occurred in dozens of cities across the country. To argue that the movement achieved what it did in spite of rather than as a result of the mixture of not-non-violent and non-violent action is spurious at best. And, lest we forget, Martin Luther King Jr., the man who embodied the respectable non-violent voice that the white power structure claims they would listen to today, was murdered by that same white power structure anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Note how the Watts riots are called a \u201crebellion\u201d.<\/p>\n
What does all this have to do with police reforms?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about NOT validating violence, arson, looting and arson.<\/p>\n
There will be a time and place to calmly and civilly review the death of George Floyd, and more broadly problems within various police forces or areas where they are lacking, as well as assess what some departments are doing right and how other departments can improve by adopting that.<\/p>\n
There will be a time and place to look at broader questions, such as reforming qualified immunity, the militarization of many departments, civil forfeiture, and a plethora of other questions.<\/p>\n
That time will likely be soon, but not while riots are happening or anarchist communes are imposing their anarchic governing on unwilling people. The place will not be in said communes or in the press conference of any radical group.<\/p>\n
But we must not rush reform, superficial or fundamentally transformative, in order to appease the mob. \u00a0 All that will do is encourage them to riot, loot, rampage, and torch people\u2019s homes and businesses.<\/p>\n
When you listen to fools, so as to say\u2026<\/p>\n
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