We cannot heal when this administration and politicians first think they are 'above the law' and secondly fueling the division and race issues. All the while, unwilling to address the fact many of these individuals having incidents with police have MULTIPLE offenses on record. It is now reported the man in Minnesota had 50 moving vehicle violations. You may think moving violations are minor , yet this involves many interactions with police and a person who is an habitual traffic offender. This in no way justifies what happened and not enough details throughout the incident are known.
What we are dealing with is an influx of criminals on our streets with very lengthy records. This failure with our system is going ignored while people make it out to be a race issue and things are said such as 'this wouldn't have happened to a white person' or 'whites need to listen to blacks. This is not about taking sides. This is about our laws not keeping up appropriately with people who are committing numerous violations and more serious crimes.
This is about an administration and politicians who are not addressing serious problem in our society , as well as committing violations themselves. All the while, law abiding citizens are getting hurt. Law enforcement are getting targeted and killed. The situation has turned into 'one side' or 'the other'. This makes it impossible to heal and be safe. We first must stop the release of repeat offenders onto our streets without full accountability. We also cannot afford to keep avoiding the magnitude of this, including those who are enabling it.
We do not need criminal justice reform only to regulate police more. We need to focus on the laws, the numbers, the criminal's histories, cases and stop the releases of those who have proven to continually have no regard for the law. They pose a risk to Americans. We are watching these conflicts evolve. We are watching race be focused on which in turn leads to more violence in retaliation due to this growing problem and lack of law and order. When there are not proper consequences, things spin out of control. Shame on those who turn this into an issue of color, political party, guns, etc instead of tackling this massive problem of criminality that we face!
