Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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I keep thinking about what might have happened to me, a white woman, if I had fallen asleep at a drive-through line at Wendy’s. I think it’s reasonable to assume that given the seriousness of the offense I might have gotten...a ticket.
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It’s going to be a tough campaign season because voter suppression efforts are going on everywhere. Check with the ACLU, Ari Berman. Check for get-out-the-vote efforts in your own state. Use your own voice and refuse to shut up.
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Things didn’t just “happen” to become the way they are. Bad public policy has led to all this and good public policy will transform it. That’s why electing an entirely different set of people in Nov - with an entirely different mindset -is imperative. progressivecandidatesummit.c…
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By using our resources to build relationships & to help people build better lives. There are plenty of experts & professionals who know exactly how to do that, but they are underutilized & underfunded in this country (no corporate profits there). We the people must demand change.
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2/ Brute force has been glamorized in America & sold to us as key to our security. By looking at it honestly, making a conscious decision to cultivate the power of soul force, we will ultimately free ourselves of this plague of violence and national self-destruction. #DeptofPeace
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1/ Whether excessive use of police or excessive use of the military, as a country we have a tolerance for violence that too many Americans fail to recognize as pathological. Through our failure to cultivate a culture of peace, we’ve enabled the creation of a culture of violence.
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That’s the point. That’s why the entire system has to be revamped. If it is allowed, it shouldn’t be. And something is very wrong in this country that it keeps happening.
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We don’t live in a country where police get to do whatever they want to do & we don’t get to question it. They work for us. We pay their salaries with our tax $. The man fell asleep at Wendy’s, for God’s sake! He was not running away from the scene of a crime. And he had no gun.
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I don’t know what your politics are, but I don’t understand why you are defending the police action here. No American regardless of our politics should be OK with this.
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What was he thinking? I’ll tell you what he might have been thinking: “Oh my God, if they arrest me they might kill me. Or put me away for years.” Can you blame him?!
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He was not drunk and belligerent; he was drunk and asleep! What black man in America would not be panicked at this point when confronted by police arrest? He tried to run, which is wrong but understandable now. He hadn’t hurt anyone; he’d fallen asleep at a Wendy’s drive-through!
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It was still the policeman’s responsibility to de-escalate the situation. There are many ways of doing that short of lethal force.
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You “don’t know” if killing him was justified given that he was driving drunk? What country do you think this is?!
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I don’t think you or I can possibly comprehend the panic that any black man in America might feel when confronted by police arrest. Our police should be well trained to restrain a person without such a quick resort to lethal force. Europeans do it all the time.
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