Marc Munroe Dion in dailyherald: Some things have changed for the better, but as Tyre Nichols learned, there's stil much that needs changing.
I remember when cops on duty used to wear those bulgy-looking shoes that were, in fact, ordinary dress shoes. They wore them for ceremonial occasions, too, and they wore them to church and to the baptisms of their children and when they took their wives out for a steak dinner in some restaurant with paneled walls and a menu item called"Jell-O Parfait."
But there were dark corners to that life, even then. Cops were paid, at least in part, to keep a lid on the kind of people we didn't like, or were afraid of, or didn't want in our neighborhoods. Back in those bad old days, before Martin Luther King Jr. even dreamed of having a dream, a young Black man in Memphis could be beaten for no reason by any white cop who happened to be feeling mean that night. Back then, beating or killing some Black kid would not interfere with the flow of paychecks that would last until you retired or the flow of pension checks that would last until you and your wife were both dead.
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