odinsblog:ONCE AGAIN: We are not having a full discussion about gun violence if we fail to acknowled
odinsblog:ONCE AGAIN: We are not having a full discussion about gun violence if we fail to acknowledge that police brutality targets black people. When the police become a part of school campuses, the arrests of Black students only increases, as do physical assaults. If you need a refresher, please recall how “School Resource Officer” Ben Fields body slammed a teenage black girl for the “crime” of being on her cell phone. Arming school teachers is an incredibly bad idea. And placing Black students in proximity to police officers needlessly puts innocent Black children at risk. We need a better, more nuanced solution. “More police” fails as a solution for nearly the same reasons that “more guns” does. Police officers on school grounds is an integral part of the school-to-prison pipeline.Amen. -- source link
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