Jan 15
I think the point is that we want police, generally, to treat a white insurrectionist with a gun as a more salient threat than a black teenager with a sign. And the current condition of the United States is that they don't.
And since there's no single Federal authority that all of the nation's police report to, the lever we've got to try to change law enforcement threat assessment priorities is basically ground-up and socially-horizontal - we need it to be the case that police are hearing from their friends that it's more important to be afraid of the white secessionist with a firearm than the black kid with the sign. So that requires talking about it a lot. Doesn't it?