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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, but if you did your job as a parent, your kid would NOT be rioting in the streets!!! [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)prior to demonstrations or civil disobedience. It is not an easy thing. The police will become violent just because the can. And that is why we need both to train our children about how to deal with the police and how to protect themselves in a non-violent way from police violence.
It is time for community action to train citizens to deal with police violence, how to report police violence, how to photograph police violence, etc.
These killings are too frequent.
But when the demonstrators become violent, the violence of the demonstrators shifts the focus of the press and the public away from the police violence and on to the violence of the demonstrators. Martin Luther King understood that that was what would happen if he did not train those who marched with him.
We need that kind of training for those who are demonstrating today.