In the past, so many police have either not been charged or have been found not guilty. Why did this charge stick?
It's not more obviously a crime than some other cases.
Others have also been caught on camera.
So maybe it's just random, and things will return to the old normal.
My gut says, no, though. There will be other cops who get off, but I sense we've reached a turning point where more often than before they're likely to face real consequences. If so, why?
Perhaps the ubiquity of cameras and the many cases we've seen have brought home to Americans just how frequent abusive policing is.
Or maybe the protests worked at raising awareness. No matter how opposed one might have been to the violence that attended many of them, it is impossible to not have become aware of the reasons and the level of anger in minority communities.
Maybe a combination, as we became more aware of their anger and regularly saw for ourselves the causes of it.
All speculation. I don't really know. But It's like to think that we've all become more aware and are all more primed to take the issue of abuse of authority by police more seriously.
Sadly, there are still possibilities of appeal... So don't rejoice too soon. And there are still his acolytes' trials coming
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