Merrick Garland Feebly Says No to Raging White Supremacist Cops

The USDOJ’s Guilty-Not-Guilty Non-Verdict Leads to a Vacuous Police Promise to Do Better

The Minneapolis police surrendering to Merrick Garland’s scathing report [AI interprets USDOJ report issued three years after Geroge Floyd’s death]

When it comes to handling black American men who are on the lower end of the economic rung, police are known for their wild sense of indecency and vast impatience. The new “ruling” on the Minneapolis department just released by the USDOJ represents in a de facto way all police departments in the US for many black Americans, and some white ones like myself, but undoubtedly the report will lead to complete inaction and over-generalized promises by the white leaders. But why, why can’t it serve as an indictment on the whole system?

There’s a lot of barriers there to explore, and I’ve only scratched the surface from my ongoing historical research, but I want to just review a couple key preliminary findings of my own; I simply don’t have forces, wo/manpower, and budget of the USDOJ. So, excuse my ignorance due to a significant lack of resources in comparison. I’m not sure my early reflections will match their experience and investigations, but I don’t feel like waiting three years.

I do applaud this new ruling, a bit. Garland says officers often used some version of the line, “You can breathe, you’re talking right now,” when placing black citizens in chokeholds or putting a foot on their neck. That…