Oh wow the protest leaders demands in Minneapolis are ... 'special'.
We want more private policing structures (community lead safety structures), instead of police! Yeah, good luck with that...
(Thats like demanding "We want the state to permanently acknowledge that it has no legitimacy, and create private policing structures, that would be equivalent to official ones, thereby breaking the states monopoly on enforcement through violence. Maybe we could have street battles between the differing policing forces in the future? What morons.
Next we want our own state, and for santa to bring everyone warm milk and cookies.)
edit: Full video:
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/29/minneapolis
Now watched the entire video, and frankly - I'm angry at the organizers.
America seems to have a widespread education problem, when it tends to put utter morons with no qualifications other than feels at the top of protest movements.
In that video above you have a female organizer demanding the abolition of state power in favor of 'direct community policing' - which is outrageously stupid, and a member of a state body stating into camera, that he hates watching snuff videos especially the kind, where the victims cant die with dignity. But the other snuff videos not so much? When not acting in a political capacity with his dad being the state attorney, he's an artist. Bravo dear SJW movement for putting people without qualifications at the top, but which excel at 'feelings'.
Cant watch those statements. Too stupid.
Also I strongly disagree with
@FAST6191 that those cases are 'low in numbers' and should be ignored. (There is still stuff that can be done to prevent further ones of those.) But at least in Minnesota the question becomes, what the heck are you doing? You already have a democratic government in place, that gets attacked by Trump for them being extremist left wing pussies, when publically demanding the arrest of those police officers. You have a police chief thats already on a mission to change the internal culture of the police department there. So now demands of the activist groups move in the direction of 'defund the police' - while organizing a riot, and at least setting a police station on fire (still different from 'setting homes on fire' (endangering other people)). I mean this is so stupid its hard to put it in words.
Because of the level of stupidity alone here, its easy to predict outcomes. Protests here will have no effects. Potential demands are so way off the charts that no sane person could even entertain them - so all of this is freaking venting and acting out again. Opportunity missed.
Next time demand better police screenings, or more psychological evaluations of officers, or reeducation programs for other officers not to stand by and stare holes into the air, demand internal restructuring programs, literally demand anything that makes sense, and could be an actual demand.
"Defund the police and fund 'community policing'" - what a freaking joke..
edit:
Ok, better demands from another activist group.
Cultural shift in the police department, body cameras, special prosecutor for those cases.
Thats something to work with.