There needs to be a massive overhaul of how cops deal with situations. Right now it seems that if you're ex-military you've got a good chance of being a cop, and that mentality of go in with total violence to subdue is causing friction in society.
Chauvin was not ex-military, but he learned how to be a cop.
Also, how about trying to make the streets safer through other means too?
However Chauvin's record as a cop has issues where the police claimed he was doing the right thing, but.... but.... seems like it might not be. He had 18 complaints, two led to discipline against him.
en.wikipedia.org
"On May 24, 2008, Chauvin was responding to a
domestic violence call about 21-year-old Black man Ira Latrell Toles by the mother of his child. After Toles locked himself in a bathroom, Chauvin forced his way in and attempted to hit Toles's head with the butt of his gun."
Was that necessary to break into the bathroom?
"On August 8, 2011, Chauvin was involved in the shooting of 23-year-old
Alaskan Native American man Leroy Martinez in the torso by fellow officer Terry Nutter. Eyewitness accounts contradicted the police's claim that Martinez was armed when he was shot. "
Not Chauvin, but the police he worked for....
Seems to be a lot of this in the US. Needs to be sorted out. Nobody seems to want to sort it out. Overly aggressive police officers, a society that is falling apart.
