MSNBC’s Harris- Perry: Police ‘Are Basically ... Gun Crazy’

‘Is this a question of whether or not the police are basically, you know, gun crazy?’

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HARRIS-PERRY: “Part because this Chicago shooting felt the way so many of us responded when tamir was killed which is, you know, remember when Nick Christoph tweeted that the movement should have focused not on Michael Brown but instead of Tamir Rice. If a 55-year-old grandmother is accidentally shot in her living room, we can all agree that’s wrong. That’s also what we initially said about Tamir Rice. And now no indictment. I keep wondering where the crazy is. We hear this is a mental health question. Is this a question of whether or not the police are basically, you know, gun crazy? Are they behaving — I also wonder if the craziness at a certain point, where they keep acting like there could be difference by some marginal reforms?”

DENNIS: “The crazy is not people resisting violence being enacted upon us by the police. The crazy is instruoral racism. If we’re talking about what’s the reform, part of the reform is bias embedded in how we operate in the United States. To see black bodies as hyper violent. And so when police are enacting with us, that is the first response, to shoot. And have that implicit violence then connects to policies that are being made. All of this pressure. I often think about watching the two parents who were here. A lot of our oceaners are meeting with families during this difficult holiday time. What is the impact all of this stress is having on families? The mental stress? The depression? The anxiety. That people are afraid — well, we are afraid for our children, afraid for ourselves. And we don’t have responses. I think it’s unacceptable to say we’re following the letter of the law. And that really Rahm Emanuel is really no authority on what should be the next level of policing in the city of Chicago.”

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