{"id":19738,"date":"2020-06-04T13:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=19738"},"modified":"2020-06-29T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T19:23:55","slug":"madison-8-cant-wait-reduce-police-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/madison-8-cant-wait-reduce-police-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"4 policies Madison could adopt to reduce police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a year this week has been. Just as coronavirus restrictions started loosening<\/a>, Americans were forced to process the death of yet another unarmed black man at the hands of police.<\/p>\n

On Memorial Day<\/a>, a Minneapolis police officer knelt on George Floyd\u2019s neck for nearly nine minutes, rendering him unconscious and ultimately killing him. All this while three other officers stood by and did nothing, despite Floyd\u2019s plea that he couldn\u2019t breathe.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a story that\u2019s all too familiar, including here in Madison<\/a>. Excessive police violence is an ugly stain on this country, and it seems like people have finally reached a breaking point. We\u2019re in the middle of a mass uprising<\/a>, where people in cities around the country \u2014 and the world \u2014 have taken to the streets to protest the broken windows<\/a> tactics often used by American cops. (Many of whom are counterproductively responding, including in our own backyard<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Police from multiple jurisdictions shot at a veteran medic and Madison nbc tv news crew #MadisonWI<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/J6jD4cSLtD<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Libby Ellsworth-Kasch (@DasDing_Dong) June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n