01.06.2020 - 00:14 [ Common Dreams ]

‚I Took the Helmet Off and Laid the Batons Down‘: Michigan Sheriff and Police Didn‘t Disperse Their Town‘s Protest—They Joined It

Amid a national wave of uprisings against police brutality in response to last week‘s brutal murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota—but in contrast to a wave of aggressive and violent responses from law enforcement to those demonstrations—a scene in Flint, Michigan that played out Saturday evening offered an alternative to aggressive police tactics as a local sheriff and his fellow officers laid down their riot gear and joined with those members of the community who came out to voice their outrage and sorrow.