Mary Sanchez: The arrogance to expect ‘calm’ when police kill
Because here we are, once again, with the death of 29- year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis earlier this month. We failed after the first widely seen video of police brutality, the 1991 beating of Rodney King. We failed after Ferguson and the death of Michael Brown, followed by Tamir Rice, who was just a child playing with a toy gun, and in so many other cases, including the...
This is how to “urge calm” across American cities: Do the work ahead of time, and everything humanly possible, to avoid the need to ask for it. Because here we are, once again, with the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis earlier this month.
Don’t want people to torch police cars, storm city halls and march through the streets, threatening businesses with looting, and neighborhoods from being covered in the noxious air of tear gas? Then commit to lessening the rage. Because it’s real and justified.
As a country, we’ve failed horribly in these instances of police brutality, despite numerous chances
