Maybe we need to try a new tact : support a group to offset them - an advocate of police reforms that isn't anticapitalism and anti-police. We never seem to get anywhere with the "this group is bad" approach.
In the closest town, and all down the western towns in North Dakota, the BLM protests were met by counter protests, often bikers, flying American (and even Trump) flags, conspicuously armed with America's favorite sport-utility rifle (slung) who formed lines between the BLM protesters and the nearest businesses.
Everything remained peaceful, and the message (to the BLM bunch) was clear: You aren't going to be breaking stuff in our town.
The counter protests were organized and had coordinated with the local police and were warmly greeted by (and made up of) locals, including law enforcement. It was not just a counter protest, but a small and representative show of force.
'Back the Blue' flags are common in town, as are pallets painted with black and blue alternating planks, so there is a lot of local support for the police. I have had only one occasion to run across any law enforcement in the area who were out of line, be they State, County, or even City Police or game wardens. Even in my 'bad ol' days' I didn't have problems with police who were professional, never out of line or in need of reform.
So let's look at the whole raison d'etre for BLM, and I'm not seeing anything but the
fictions that St. Trayvon, St. George, St Michael of Ferguson, St. Freddie of Baltimore, and others, were anything but holy and beatified saints who were horribly wronged, despite the crimes, and even violent behaviours and possible altered mental states they were in at the time of their demise. If, indeed, someone is wrongfully killed or injured, with the incredible amount of video, then those instances should be examined on a case-by-case basis, without mobs in the streets or threats of violent extremes.
In reality, criminal actions led to their deaths, often directly.
Now, if police are out of line, causing injury and death that is not justified by the circumstances, then perhaps those police need for the courts to examine their actions, and, as appropriate, either purge their ranks of bad elements or retrain those who are bad actors.
But "reform" as used by the Left means tying hands, neutering, and giving specific demographics freedom from the constraints of the law, carte blanche, and I cannot support that.
Laws are the constraints, self-imposed, by a culture which represent the way that culture wants to live.
Some do not wish to live in a way that complies with that societal and ultimately self-imposed cultural norm.
The law is independent of all the little reasons for "protected" groups, and those factors should be moot. Whether a person is a biracial drag queen or a priest, they should have the same protection of the law, be equally constrained by it, and suffer the same penalties for breaking it.
Police are merely there to enforce those laws.
If the police don't represent the culture (that made those laws), then either the law or the culture should (and will need to) change.
Now, maybe things are different elsewhere, but that is how it looks here.
