Re: Santa Fe Plaza Riot

Posted by jon zingale on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Santa-Fe-Plaza-Riot-tp7596686p7596687.html

Steve,

I personally find the Santa Fe police force to be very good at being
empathetic and encouraging peaceful conflict. As someone who has spent
half of my life living in dense urban centers, I often feel a responsibility
to witness when I see police interactions with others. Moving to Santa Fe has
done a lot to remediate my feelings around the police. Further, while there is
a very long way to go wrt race and equity, the discussion has been explicitly
in motion here in New Mexico for a long time. Is it possible that our apparent
isolation from the broader unrest is a sign of maturity within our social
discourse? I have some concern that there may be a rising pressure

across the diverse regions of our country to abstract away our differences,

and to behave as if the discourse is everywhere the same. Doing so in

many cases would erase the very good work that has been hard-won.

Jon

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