I am blessed to have a 3 bedroom that I made to a 4 bedroom for only 1400 never stop looking and when you find that deal it’s a steal and grab it you can always make an extra room out of a activity room or extra area in the house don’t settle for less.

Well if you want it made in Worcester then make it yourself. Buy a bread machine and every morning you can have a fresh loaf made in Worcester. Better yet in your Worcester Kitchen. Have at it.

...and the demonstration makes that more likely how...?

It's solidarity. But also it's purposely being treated as a national issue.

Anyway, seriously, you can plan a protest for these other things if you'd like. And there are people working on improving these problems in Worcester, if you're interested in knowing what is being done or if you'd like to work with them.

Yea I also use knights. Super consistent and flexible. Only downside is if you do a shared va your route may be a bit longer

That's a ridiculous response.

The problem is systemic,it needs to be resolved by entirely overhauling the systems in place.

There's a video, it can be seen rather definitively.

You should consider joining the police force and showing them what a model officer looks like.

Why don’t we ever hear about any local issues being protested? He was killed in Tennessee ffs. Meanwhile have you seen the rise in homelessness all over the city? The drug overdoses? The local violence? But ok- let’s protest something that happened thousands of miles away and has no direct impact on Worcester or even MA.

In the long term? Drastically reducing the responsibilities of police officers, abolishing the police unions, making them wear body cams where the footage is publicly available with a presumption of guilt if they are not being used properly, an end to qualified immunity, screening of racial bias, and demilitarization of the police.

In the short term? Making it so that every time the police hurt someone, everyone feels the shock and disruptions from it. This has been going on since the inception of the police and it's time for it to stop, and that means being more vocal and louder each time it happens.

I thoroughly hate the implication here. It amounts to "Don't disrupt peoples' lives in honor of this young man." He died after a vicious brutal beating. A little traffic disruption for an evening is nothing in comparison to that.

I'd agree with your last point if it weren't for the fact that police are trained to be militant in the first place. 'Better training' could very well have meant 'being sure to not get caught'. The idea that police training would have been a good solution here is a bad premise from the outset. The fact that David Grossman still gives talks and is popular speaks volumes to the issue. The police are a brutal military force and, the vast majority of their jobs need to be replaced with social workers who understand mental health and harm reduction issues.

To add to my reply deeper in this thread; this is part of a national problem and indeed a problem here too.

It's never just about the protest. Protests are usually part of a larger effort. The efficacy of protests varies. They can yield immediate results, they can take years to build momentum, they can be quashed or quickly forgotten. but at the very least they let a community know that some of it's members care about something. It connects people and fosters further work on the issue. If anyone else in the community is concerned about this thing but isolated, now they know they have a community and path to doing work on the issue. It's a single part of many types of effort and activism that can bring eventual change.

That’s what the trial is for. Something that protest won’t speed up or change the outcome of.

Good question and theres one answer, conviction

It's peaceful and raises awareness

I'm answering your question I've been busy most of the day, point is, protest till conviction

Absolutely I have hosted two protests for him already and both have been without issue

And cops don't always get convicted when they commit murder

Conviction

Not till conviction

Wouldn't be drinking at a protest or before I go to work anyway

It's alcohol, and yeah I can control myself

But...isn't just going to a demonstration kind of neutral, if it doesn't accomplish anything?

Better to work to get good candidates elected or something along those lines. A bill enacted in the city/state/country, etc.