For me, this news is devastating. And I take it personally, because above all else, it means that in spite of our best efforts to reduce the number of people killed by police, what we are doing is just not working.

Listen, I don't even think that we have been wrong for fighting to hold police accountability and change policies on the city, county, state, and federal level, but what he must conclude is that our combined efforts to curb police violence have effectively failed. Have we had a few important victories? Of course.

But the problem we've aimed to solve simply has gotten worse and we must ask ourselves that hard questions about what this means.Let me unpack and explain it all.

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Shaun

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