Brianna Grier should not have been threatened, much less killed by rough policemen with no regard for her safety.
This latest tragedy is another good argument in favor of Defunding the Police, NOW.
Yes, I know that “Defund” is a terrible name for the movement. But it’s not about taking all funding away from local police. Instead, it is about reallocating a portion of local police budgets to social services.
Services that could more effectively handle situations like Brianna’s
Why must American’s resort to calling the police when a family member has a mental health crisis?
Why do the police treat mentally ill people like criminals?
Why do these policemen have so little regard for the well-being of a young African-American woman?
Why must they drag her across the ground, put her into the back of a patrol car without a seatbelt, and then neglect to close the car door?
Mental illness is not a crime.
And this is negligent homicide, at the very least.
