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This country was much closer to unity pre BLM than post. Its not even debatable.A lot of what you are saying is reasonable even if I dont agree with it. BLM is not reasonable. BLM is a movement that has convinced people that we are a better society without cops, they have convinced people that a man who gets shot for rushing police with a knife is worth rioting over. That a homicide suspect who commits suicide is worth rioting over. That's not a movement that's doing something positive in my eyes.
As far as some of your other points that you made. You brought up police shooting the shit in the suburbs when inner cities are understaffed, and I think that's a good point. More cops should be concentrated to those areas, but according to blm that's a bad idea. They believe inner cities are over policed.
You also brought up cops being fitted with military equipment. Without knowing the full details, maybe the cops do need less tanks and other shit they are spending money on. But you have to be realistic to some degree about how much you want to disarm the police. We live in a society that has a lot of people who are heavily armed. You cant really have police here walking the streets with a whistle and a club like you do other places, unless we move towards a more authoritarian society that disarms the people. In that case it would still be cops and civilians getting into brawls and I can guarantee people still would not be happy