With the continued frustration over watching black people being killed by the police in the USA without justice, there’s been a lot of conversations in the community about what to do about it. Krull would like you to send in real-life suggestions on how we can address the problem. Like this one:

“Whenever I get discouraged over still fighting for civil rights, I remind myself that the struggle to end slavery lasted for centuries. I have been thinking about how to really have police behave like Black lives matter. The criminal justice system does not help because the standard is what the officer believed, and the littlest unarmed Black person is perceived as a hulking monster in the eyes of the police officers who shoot first, ask questions later. I think that whenever a municipality or other government organ has to pay out money for wrongful deaths or police brutality, the money should first come from the officers’ pensions in full all at once, and when that source is depleted, look to accrued vacation in full and all at once, and then garnish each pay cheque. The bankruptcy laws should be changed so that these debts cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, so that even if the officers’ quit their police jobs, they cannot escape the debt. I am certain that they will ask questions first and shoot later when their money is on the line.”

–Karen