Protesters face police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Photo: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images During a Monday press conference the day before he resigned as Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, chief of police, Tim Gannon used the word “community” half a dozen times. He was trying to project a sense of shared investment between his officers and the people whose streets they patrol. He wanted to show that everyone was in this together after the killing of Daunte Wright.
“Community” as Gannon describes it means a particular geographic location — in this case, the city of Brooklyn Center — and an accompanying sense that living within its borders confers a sense of shared ownership: our stores, our pharmacies. It also suggests that mitigating harm against its members is a collective responsibility, enforced by an agreed-upon compact among stakeholders.
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zakcheneyrice We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality. -- Al Sharpton