So what has protesting accomplished?
🏾Within 10 days of sustained protests:
Minneapolis bans use of choke holds.
🏾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged.
🏾Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.
🏾New Jersey’s attorney general said the state will update its use-of-force guidelines for the first time in two decades.
🏾In Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a police reform work group.
🏾Los Angeles City Council introduces motion to reduce LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.
🏾MBTA in Boston agrees to stop using public buses to transport police officers to protests.
🏾Police brutality captured on cameras leads to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities (i.e., Buffalo, Ft. Lauderdale).
🏾Monuments celebrating confederates are removed in cities in Virginia, Alabama, and other states.
🏾Street in front of the White House is renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza. Military forces begin to withdraw from D.C. Then