A CNN panelist compared policing in the United States to “weeds” in a yard that must be uprooted in order to change the “most violent country in the world.”
“What we’re seeing now is we’re continuously — every two days, there’s another video that comes out where there’s an abuse of power with state-sanctioned violence,” Black Votes Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown told host John King on Tuesday night.
“And so I think if we want to take this opportunity — yes, there are small steps that have been made, but we are not uprooting,” she said. “It’s kind of like having weeds in the yard. You can cut the weeds down, you know, when you’re mowing the grass, but until you uproot or kill the weeds, it will still take over your yard.”
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“You know, what I think is important is that defund the police for all its critics, the bottom line is we are talking about police reform,” Brown said. “For a number of years, we could not even have that conversation.”
After referring to the U.S. as the “most violent country in the world,” Brown said, “At some point, we are actually politicizing, over-politicizing people’s lives.”
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