We have elections. That gives our government a mandate to act and incentive to measure public opinion. There is a lot of progress needed on police reform, but don’t throw out the bounds we’ve made in the last decade alone.

Protest is prudent once democratic means have been exhausted, or to draw attention to an issue. Police violence already has the public’s attention. There is an ongoing debate around the proper solution, with trials around decriminalisation, special prosecutors, body cameras, et cetera going into play around the country.

We haven’t frequently seen 1/7th of a city rise up in protest because we have other ways of effecting change. Hong Kong did too. But Beijing doesn’t.