Mark Small

2) address - and address now - the causes of these most recent injustices to our People; 3) make sure citizens are placed on boards to review and act upon complaints of police violence; 3/12

4) de-militarize our police to make law enforcement appear - and act - less as a force of occupation than as members of our communities charged with keeping peace equally; 4/12

5) establish standards to review applicants to law enforcement agencies to ensure officers fired or disciplined for acts of violence from one community do not simply obtain employment as law enforcement officers in another of our communities; 5/12

6) ensure the makeup of our law enforcement agencies excludes as officers those who belong to groups that advocate that any single color or ethnicity or belief or gender or religion is superior in rights to any other; and, 6/12

7) root out the white supremacists at the cause of these latest acts of violence. 7/12

There can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without open and frank communication between our political leaders and the leaders of the communities most affected by this violence. 8/12

There can be no resolution of this violence until we finally acknowledge the racial hatred that still exists in this country. 9/12

All People are entitled to due process of law. The recruitment and hiring of competent law enforcement officers who are free of any animus toward others because of appearance or beliefs is critical to any notion of due process of law. 10/12

The steps I suggest only are a beginning Our leaders need to act but not as if this is a war & our People are on the side of the enemy Republican Party was started to fight slavery - the most insidious/evil manifestation of racism, not to act as a tool to promote racism. 11/12