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Seattle Police Kill a Man Who Decapitated a Woman, Probe Follows
Seattle police were dispatched to an apartment in answer to a domestic violence call and found a decapitated woman on the floor of the apartment. They soon came in contact with a knife-wielding man yelling in a foreign language.
They tried to get him to put the knife down and at first, he did, laying down on his stomach. The man then started yelling again, stood up, grabbing the knife. The police begged the man to put down the knife as he screamed in a foreign language. Perhaps because of the language barrier and the rage he was in, he wouldn’t. The officers were also faced with a decapitated body which horrified them as this was going down.
Proponents of the nation s Defund Police movement have argued that some police funding could be redirected to fund community programs, which would help improve policing, lower police interactions for at-risk populations and lead to better job satisfaction for police and results for taxpayers. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
Many activists leading the call to defund the police say the answer to disproportionate policing is to take money from the cops and give it to communities. But change is never as easy as writing new lines in a city budget.
In this episode of This Changes Everything’s look at efforts to defund the police, host Sara Bernard and reporter David Kroman examine emerging community programs that are seeking to take the place of police as a way to dismantle the systemic racism that has long been part of the American criminal justice system.
US Capitol police officers try to stop supporters of US President Donald Trump to enter the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breached security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Off-duty police officers were among the mob that attacked the US Capitol last week.
Body cam footage from Boston civil rights protests shows how police are out of control.
In order to secure the country from insurrectionists, these institutions must be demilitarized.
Eoin Higgins is a journalist in New England.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.