Copied here because I didn’t have time to address this in my original post.

As for cops having the leverage… do they? Because of this crazy BLM narrative which has made martyrs out of defacto villians cops will more and more hesitate to shoot at their enemy even though it may mean their own life, let’s take the example of the black guy who committed death by cop by grabbing at the cops gun in a struggle.

An anecdote doesn’t disprove my claim. Police are, by definition, there to enforce the laws. To enforce laws on people otherwise unwilling to comply with them requires a threat of violence.

When you pair this with the fact that the people they’re policing are very rarely the people who make the laws, this results in the police being an authoritarian institution that uses violence to enforce the laws of the powerful elite on the powerless. Black communities did not write the drug laws that have disproportionately affected them, they did not create the sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine that disproportionately punishes black users for using the same drug. That was congress, particularly the congress of the Reagan era that was consumed by hysteria over a supposed crack epidemic.