Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revoluti...

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  1. Wendell GriffenJune 13, 2020 at 8:46 PM

    How many unarmed black and brown people have been killed and abused by law enforcement officers since President Kennedy's 1962 statement?

    How many calls have been made, peacefully yet firmly, to eradicate the culture of violence within law enforcement agencies and reform and remedy those agencies?

    How many times have protesters been told to remain calm, be patient, and trust the process that inevitably results in no arrests, charges, or even dismissal of officers who kill and maim unarmed people?

    Now recall President Kennedy's statement. The violent and tragic responses to abusive and homicidal police actions now are the inevitable and deplorable results of institutional failures within law enforcement agencies and the local, state, and federal governments that are supposed to regulate them.

    But those violent results, however deplorable, are by no means comparable to the decades of vicious and tragic abusive and homicidal police behaviors.

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